JPRS ID: 10441 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
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WORLDWIDE REPORT
~ NA~COTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
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~ CONTENTS
ASIA
' AUSTRALIA
Rep ort Proposes Secret Phone Taps on Drug Dealera
(Stephen Mills; THE AGE, 2 Feb 82) 1
Briefs
Sydney Hashieh Seizure 2
_ Opposition to Marijuana Legalization 2
BURMA
Opium, Carrier ~eized on Lashio Train
(MYANMA ALIN, 2 Feb 82) 3
MALAYSIA
= Narc otica Arrests, Seizures in January 1981
(NEW STRAITS TIMES, 23 Feb 82) 4
Cus tom Officers Seize Raw Heroin
(NEW STRAITS TIMES, 20 Feb 82) 5
PHILIPPINES
Briefs
Marijuana Farm Destroyed (
SINGAPORE
Briefe
. Fight Against Drug Use 7
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THAILAND
I~hun SA Sends Letters to Prem, Other Officials
(MATICHON, 12 Mar 82) 8
Amphetamine Use Said To Be Growing
(BAN *NANG, 20 Jan 82) 9
Heroin Smuggler, Hired by Malaysian, Arreated
(TAWAN SIAM, 1 Jan 82) 10
Hong Kong Man Arrested With Heroin
(NATION REVIEW, 9 Feb 82) 11
- Columnist Blasta Effectiveness of Anti-Sua Raid
(Tabi Chaophraya; DAO ST;~M, 9 Feb 82) 12
Marihuan.~. Seized in Chachoengsao
(DAO SIAAIrii, 14 Feb 82) 14
Irregular Troopa Said To Be Misuaed in Ban Hin Taek Raid
_ (MATICHON, 7 Feb 82) 15
- Briefs
_ Drug Seminar 17
CANADA
Conviction for Cocaine, Marijuana Trafficking
(Gary Rennie; THE WIDTDSOR STAR, 26 Feb 82) 18
Man Jailed on Drug Charges i~alled Major Niagara Seller
(THE GLOBE AND MAIL, WEEKEND EDITION, 6 Feb 82) 20
Five Imprisoned for Narcotics Trafficking
(THE SATURDAY WINDSOR ~TAR, 27 Feb 82) 21
Briefs
Heroin Seized 22
Druga Spur Crime r~Jave 22
LATIN AMERICA
ARGENTINA
Briefs
Addicts Arrested 23
Traffickera Arrested 23
Traffickers Killed, Arreated 23
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BOLIVIA
~ Briefs
Traffickers Escape Prison 24
Cocaine Factory Dismantled 24
Officer Diacharged for Trafficking 24
Official Convicted on Drug Trafficking 24
BRAZIL
Briefs
Cocaine Seized 25
COLOMBIA
Mexican Cocaine Dealer Achieves Freedom
(EL TIEMPO, 28 Feb 82) 26
Briefs
Marihuana Seized in Cesar 29
MEXICO
Smugglers of Electronic Good: Captured With Cocaine
(EL MANANA, 18 Feb 82) 30
Briefs
Heroin Ring Suspects Arrested 32
Marihuana Shipment Seized 32
Nine Drug Plantations Destroyed 33
- Customs Guard, Trafficker Killed 33
Marihuana Traffickers Jailed 33
- PANAMA
Routes, Methoda of Colombian Cocaine Traffickers Discussed
(John Alius; 0 ESTADO DE SAO PAULO, 7 Mar 82) 35
NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA'
IRAN
~ Briefs
Quchan Drug Seizure 43
Torbat-e Jam Opium Seizure 43
Neyshabur Opium Seizure 43
Tehran Drug Seizures 43
- Drugs Seized in Nehavand 43
Opium Seized in Darreh t~az 43
Opium Seizure in Sara:chs 43
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Hamadan Heroin Seizure 44
Shiraz Opium Trafficking 44
Bostanabad dpium Seizure 44
Opium Discovery in Sabzvar 44
Esfahan Drug Discovery 44
Opium Seized in 'Aligudarz 44
- Shirvan Qpium Diacovery 44
Opium Seized ir, Chabukear 44
Fara Drug Seizure 44
Massive Drug Swoop 44
Hamedan Heroin Haul 45
Mashhad Opium Seizure 45
Smugglera Arreated 45
Huge Drug Haul 45

, Gun, Heroin Seized 45
Opium Seizure 45
Fars Drug Haul 45
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
SOUTH AFRICA
Briefs
Warning on Druga 46
WEST EUROPE
AUSTRIA ~
Three Nigerians Sentenced for Smuggling Marihuana
(WIENER ZEITUNG, 23 Feb 82) 47
BELGIUM
Netherlander Held for Smuggling Hashish, Arma
(DE STANDAARD, 18 Feb 82) 48
CYPRUS ~
Briefs
Narcotics in Famagusta 50
DENMARK
Interior Miniater Would Prohibi.t Growing of Hemp Plants
(BERLINGSKE TIDENDE, 19 Mar 82) 51
Death-Dealing Heroin Seized by Police in CoFc~inagen
(BERLINGSKE TIDENDE, 18 Mar 82) 52
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Official: Sixteen Tons of Methadone Used Anually by Addicts
(Ih'FORMATION, 23 Feb 82) 53
I~ Danieh, Norwegian Police: Over a Ton of Hashish From Nepal
(Helge Aamotsbakken; ARBEIDERBLADET, 3 Mar 82) 55
Welfare Director: Stop Unemployment, Disability Aid to Users
~ (BERLINGSYtE TIbENDE, 16 Mar 82) 56
Fulketing Majority Prevents Action To Close Christiania
(BERLINGSKE TIDENDE, 17 Mar 82) 57
Reporter Visits Christiania, Finds Hashiah Sold Openly
(Henrik Grunnet; BERLINGSKE TIDENDE, 16 Mar 82) 59
Police Assert Christiania ls Denmark's Hashish Center
(Anders Wiig; BERLINGSKE TIDENDE, 7 Mar 82) 63
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
Leader of Frankfurt Drug Ring Goes on Trial
(DER SPIEGEL, 1 Mar 82) 65
ITALY .
Italy's Growing Role in Narcotica Reported
(ANSA, 15 Mar 82) 69
NORWAY
Physician Sees Increasing Brutality in Drug Environment
(Jan 0. Helgesen; ARBETDERBLADET, 2 Mar 82) 70
SWEDEN
Narcotics Police Methods Described
(Leif Dahlin; DAGENS NYHETER, 27 Feb 82) 72
National Police Chief Defends Use of Drug Gang Infiltratora
(Bo G. Andersson, Cecilia Steen-Johnsaon; DAGENS NYHETER,
- 27 Feb 82) 75
Danes Protest Swedes' Leaking of News on Gang Infiltration
, (DAGENS NYHETER, 27 Feb 82) 78
Minister Promises Tougher Prison Regimen for Drug Convicts
(Willy Silberstein; SVENSKA DAGBLADET, 22 Feb 82) 80
Dutch Truck Driver Smuggles 42 Kilograms of Hashiah
(Claes von Hofaten; SVLNSKA DAGBLADET, 17 Feb $2) 83
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UNITED KINGDOM
Commentary Notea Use of Drugs by Middle Claes
(Roderick Junor; THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, 2 Mar 82) 85
Home Office Notes Inc:ease in Number of Drug Addicts
_ (David Fletcher; THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, 24 Feb 82) 87
- Drug Smuggler Marks Jailed for Three Years
_ (Ian Henry; THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, 17 Feb 82) 88
Court Hears Police 'Turned Blind Eye' on Drug Ring Couple
(THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, 20 Feb 82) 90
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AUSTRALIA
REPORT PROPOSES SECRET PHONE TAPS ON DRUG DEALERS
Melbourne THE AGE in English 2 Feb 82 p 1
~Article by Stephen Mills~
~Text~
- CANBERRA. -'A specfa3 teIIigence work relating to druB pects who believed that ti~eir
Scotland Yard iavestiga~ion of offenders - the colt~tion, avalus- gh~~ wese being t~pp~.
the AuStralian Federal Palice uon ~~or- 9ir C~tin rejected the g~8g~'
has reoommended a strict pn-. ~0~ tion that Folice migi~t develop a
licy df secreCy a'bout the T~ P�licy of noa-disclo- ~v~ to phone tapping
force's new ~owers to tap �sure a! t~lephone tapping is bes- ~g t~ey were not requ,ired w
� tel~ ones df ected dru ~ on Che beli~ t3aat presp,rtting produce t~e transcripts m courc.
~ ~P 8 xranscripts of phone conversetions for tele~phone
o~ffettt~et's� to a court can lead to the hearing ~~d .be refused if police
The recommendation, which has becoming bogged down in irrele- g~j~ tti ~e Qalid use af them.
b~ren alccepted by R'he Fedeea7 Pa vancies. Poltce cia~ms on tl~ iden- ~e ~d, then has
1Yoe Ca~io~r, Sir Col~n tity of voices on tapes are regu- yp~ ~~ab~ity, wha
w~s~ larly challen~ged in court. ~ g~s a w~eek, oaee a
gainetd from pho~ne t~ vvnu9d uot Si~ CoTin told '1fie Age' that ~~~y, g~ y~m, ~
be presenRed is ao~ur~. I~itea~d, it presenting transcripts to a, court ~f~ ~nL~~
wi4l be used ~ry politie far a~- could kad to a leg;
.1 prab~ng of Sir Colin sedd he ~vss a"S~t t
- telligence purposes to help crack the whole
systecn
o~ gaining the. believer" W. revevin6 the num-
drug rin~s. information> leadfiB. . in tl~rn, ta ber et telephone taPs ins6ituttd
Narcatics oHicers af the Aus- ~s~e ~ police intelligeace s~nd ~~e fo~, ~gut the lesy
tralian Federal Police gained the ~pra~ers. . }~qgbtened perc~eption 1her4 Is ~n
power to tapp~ ones in 1979 and 5ir Colin ~aid that Superinten� v;arld sbout the (tele-
began. surveiltance in 1980. De- dent HemingwaY had aL~o g~ven one mterceP'ts. the ~PPier I
- tertive Chief Su~erin~'~end~etYt A,I- ~ ~ ~
~ernon Hemingway was second~d us~~ ~~ce a~bout handling in~ ~n be,� he ~id.
forma.wn ' once it had b~en re-
~ast year from Scotland Yarn to Superintendent eminBwaY
ceived from tdephone taps, cov-
advise on the most up-to-date~ also recommended tk~at:
methods of employin the nea ering sec~sity of tha ~t~~~ ' ~ police shoald not be requ4red .
powers. Superintenden Heming� ~CO~s ~'0 ~~'~~;~tl�n to attend ceurt v~hen Che ac-
way submited a 140-pege repart ~~~'~on for tlu sltarP ~used had plgaded~ guilty;
to Sir Colin over C6nstmaa aPter ~�~st;0� ~ Time-savmg charge sheets
a six-month imes�igation. tecti~ro wovk. Il~e 8ad Pr~~ and crime ofience reports be
He was also aeked to report oa ths b~e~t a~ B~itish e~cP~~nce used.
oa esusctin~ t~b~e de.~ 'Fhe Admin;strative Services
ways oS streamlining the Austra= uaed sus-
lian Fe~ideral Pplice's criminal in- ~~~0�� Mimsur. Mr Newman, is study-
in~ t?ie report
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AUSTRALIA
BRIEFS
SYLNEY HASHISH SEIZURE--Customs officials and federal policy in Sydney have
seized !nore than 2 tons o� high grade hashish--the largest haul ever detected
in Australia. The hashish was seized after a aearch of a container aboard a
ship containing Middle East foodstuffs. The business and consumer affairs
minister, Mr Morre, said in Canberra, the ship f irst arrived fn Melbourne
from Marseilles but was then redirected to Sydney. He said the high quality
hashish was individually wra~pped in calica cloth and stamped with a trade
mark. [Text] [BK260202 Meibozrne Overseas Service in English 0830 GMT 24
Mar 82 BK]
- OPPOSITION TO MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION--Australiart police commissioners have
come strongly against any moves to make the use of mari~uana legal. The
commissioners, who have been meeting in Canberra, say they did not endorse
the decriminalization of the drug. They say a recent discussion paper by
the Australian focndation of alcoholism and drug dependence on mari3uana
lacks conclusivp data on the long-term effects of using it. There has been
an increasing debate by prominent Australians recently on changing~the laws
relating to Mari~uana. [Text] [BK260202 Melbourne Overseas Service in
English 0830 ~'MT 23 Mar 82 BK]
CSO: 5300/5688
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BU RMA
OPIUM, CARRIER SEIZED ON LASHIO TRA~N
Rangoon MYANMA AI.IV in Burmese 2 Feb 82 p 1
[Text] At 1000 on 22 January, acting on information, a Lashio railways
police squad headed by Ko Sein Maung and Ko Ko Aye searched passenger car-
riage No 4 of the Last~io-Mandalay train as the train entered Hsipaw stati~n.
'L't~e team found from Nan Mya U of Shwe Chedi Ward No 8, Kyaukme, six balls
of raw opium, weighing 6 viss [about 22 pounds] and worth about 20,000 kyat,
li-idden among the vacuum flasks in a rattan bag together with other contra-
band goods.
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[Photo caption] Nan Mya U of Kyaukme seen together with 6 balls of raw
opium seized from her on Lashio-Mandalay train at Hsipaw station on
22 January.
CSO: 5300/4926
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NARCOTICS ARRESTS, SEIZURES IN JANUARY 1981
Kuala Iumpur NEW STRAITS TIMES in English 23 Feb 82 p 19
[Text]
KUAL.A LUMPUR, Mon. The following day, pc~- an unknown pcrson. Ya- .
- Three Singaporcane ltce in Penang acting om ~~ce wafted in ambuah but
and a Thal .wcre among iniormatlon etopped si no onc camc to take thc
82! peoplc arrealed for man at the ietty an~i g~i~
drugoftencea in January. aelzed a briefcaee. In thc On Jan. 31 pollce
OL the total arreste, 19 ~g~ae bottom of the bsg� raided a houae tn Jalan
were tor drug trat[Icking thcy found !.7 kg of hero- Dellma hcre and de-
and 21 for puehing, CID in number 8. talned two youtha and
Dlrector Datuk Abdul In tollow-up opera- aeized S2b atlcks of gania
Aahman Iamall sald to- Uona, tour more people
daY� wcre arreated.
He eaidpo Iice carricd On dan. s, pollce
out Is7 raldr and 58! aur- atopped thrae mon at Ta-
prlae checka. i man Tun Abdul . Razak
Datuk Abdu~ Rahman hcre and aelaed 19 stleke
eaid that except for raw at ganja. In a plaatic bag
optum, there was an in- police foand another
creaae 1n the ~aefaurc of three bundlea of ganja
other typee of ~lruge. wclghing 868 gm.
Briefc~se On Jan. a, 8 c~~ W~
atopped at 3lmpang Tlga
in Jitra and two men
� About 9 k~ of raw ~ycrc detatned. Atter
oplum, i.d kg prepared aearching the tax! 600 gm
opium, 6.2 kg ot hcroin, ~t gan~a were found. '
and 9.9 kg ot ~anja wcrc Then on Jan. 18, police
aeized. detained a woman and
On Jan.1, pollce raided her son when they found
' a houae 1n Jalan Kem in 100 aticka of ganja 1n
Port Klang and arreated their food etall.
- four men. They aearched On Jan. 28, at Jalan
- the houee and aelzed 757 R.aia Bot here, police
atlcke of gania found S kg ot gan
ja left by
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MP,LAY S IA
CUSTOM OFFIC~RS S~IZE RAW F1ER~IN.
Kuala Iumpur NEW STRAITS TI~1~S in English 20 Feb 82 p 1
[Text]
IPO~I, Fri. - i;ustoms ofticers yes� Wan Yeop Abdul Shukor~ said th~
tcrday sciz~d 1,000 ~m ot hiqh� ambuqt~ was I~id on n house near a
qrade rsaw hcrofn, worth about ~1 mosque s?bout 5 nm by a nine-man
amb gh on 111 ~u5e~fn~Sunqel Bak- oms Supl ~ChrngeKan~ Lamr Cus-
1p~ P~ovincc Welletil~y. Aboat 9.40 am, a Honda Accord
Thc housc Is bclicved to have bearin~ 1'en:~n~ rcgist~ratlon
been used as a trs~nsit polnL for 'p~atea, drovo into Sungef Bakap
druRs smu~~led fn (rom north� Town Irom lhc north. It turned Into
wcst Th:?il:~nd'a'(aolden Trlangle'. emall Inno IcsldinR to the houee.
- A 40-yc:~r�old guspect from A Customs' car tollowed~ and
Province Wclicsley 1nd a Honda oificers at olher stations closed in.
Accord ca,r were det:tiined. ' When thc car stopped In tront of
The seizarc, thc bi~~est by the the house, the driver was ap~
Customs hcre so L�?r this ycar, was ~Irehendcd by Customs otflccrs S.
thc result of two months ot in� "~unusamy and Sharifuddln bin
vestigaeions on lhc :tictivitles ot a Mohamed Yusott.
local drug syndicatc belicved to be ' "Thelr action was so qulek~ the
based in Provincc Wcllesley. driver did not even have tlme'to
The seized hcroln is capable ot untasten his scat belt " said HaJi
being convcrled lnto 200,000 shots. Wan Ycop.
A shot, at prev:Liling slreet price, The drivcr threw out a~ package
costs about ~f. trom the car which was found to
Perak Cutito~nti Dircetor, H1ji contain the high-~rade raw heroin.
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PHILIPPINES
BRIEFS
- MARIJUANA FARM DESTROYED--Tinglay3n, Kalinga-Apayao--The government has found a
vast mari3uana plantation in this mo~ntain area run bq armed regulars of the
New People's Arnry. Believed to be a source of funds of rebels for buying arms, the
farm eluded detection for many monthe as it was hidden in thickly forested hills.
When raided by the elements of the armed forces' Northern Command six NPA members
were still tending the farm. Also found in the plantation was a 20-bed rebel hos-
pital stocked with assort~d medical supglies and preserved food. The marijuana
farmers who were captured told investigators they had been operating the planta-
tion to help shore un NPA financea. Brig. Gen. Romeo Gatan, Northcom commander,
said about 30,000 marijuana plants worth P6 million were uprooted and burned by
the troopers. The farmers also admitted that a good part of their earnings were
used in buying guns. According to intelligence agents, the mari3uana is sold in
school campuses and some urban villages. Military regional commar:u~ra told Defense
Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and Gen. Fabian C. Ver, AFP chief of etaff, that the
10 bulldozers aeized by rebels last week in Pamplona, Kalinga-Apayao, were recovered
yesterday by government troopers after a fierce gunbattle. Some 30 rebels guarded
the heavy equipment, the regional commanders said. The dissidents earlier demanded
a P500,000 ransom for the return of the bulldozers taken from the Pamplona Redwood
Veneer Enterprises. 'I'he regional military command said no ransom was paid. The
troopers said the dissidents, who withdrew after engaging troop enfarcements in a
one-hour firefight, were armed with armalites and other assorted guns. [Text]
[Manila PHILIPPINES DAILY EXPRESS in English 13 Mar 82 pp 1, 2]
CSO: 5300/4929
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SINGAPORE
BRIEFS
- FIGHT AGAINST DRUG USE--T.he minister of state for law and home affairs told
Parliament that the measures adopted by the government to combat drug addic-
tion and drug trafficking in Singapore have met with cons~.derable success.
It was estimated that the addicted population had dropped from 1:~,000 in
_ 1977 to 6,100 last year. Betweer~ 1976 and 1978, 50 persons were char~ed
fnr drug trafficking offenses which c~uld carry the death penalty, but the
number dropped to 15 between 1979 and 1981. The prices of drugs on the
street had risen as the result from $7 for a 0.2 gram straw of heroin a
few years ago to $20 for 0.05 gram of heroin. He said that hardcored
addicts remained a problem. [BK260202 Singapore Domestic Service in English
11.00 GI~T 19 Mar 82 BK]
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~i'ziAILAND
- KHUN SA SENDS LETTER~ TO PREM, OTHER OFFICIALS
BK120350 Bangkok MATICHUN in~ Thai 12 Mar 82 pp 1, 12
[Excerpt] In his report on 11 March, the MATICHON reporter in Chiang Rai
said Khun Sa, leader of the Shan State United Army, whase headquarters at
Ban Hin Taek was destroyed by the Thai armed forces in February, has written �
letters to several senior Thai officials. Last week he sent more letters to
such officials again through local Thai officials in Mae Chan District,
_ Chiang Rai.
Accordiiig to the reporter, Khun Sa's letters were written in Thai Yai
~ dialect and were addressed to Prime Minister Gen Prem Tinsulanon, Deputy
Prime Minister Prachuap Suntharangkun, Director of Army Operations Maj Gen
Chawalit Yongchaiyut, Chiang Rai Governor Sakda 0-phong and Public Welfare
Department Director General Pramun Chanchamnong. In the letter to Pramun,
Khun Sa asked Pramun to deliver a separate letter to the king.
= The contents of the letters wF:re similar in that they say that the Thai king
is revered as the king of the Thai Yai minority group since the Thai Yai and
lowland Thai people are from the same origins. The incident at Ban Hin Taek
is over and done and took place as a result of a misunderstanding. The Shan
- State United Army holds no grudge over the incident.
- The letters say that regarding the Thai Government's allegation that Khun Sa
is a narcotics trafficker and that his death or arrest would make opium dis-
appear from thp Golden Triangle, Khun Sa is willing to surrender himself to
the Thai Government. I~iun Sa also proposes to the Thai Govern~ent that he
put the entire Shan State United Army under command of the Thai military in
any operation, including operations against the communist terrorists or other
minority groups.
_ According to the reporter, Khun Sa did not set any conditions on his pro-
posal. It is believed, however, that Khun Sa wi11 ask for permission to set
up a sanctuary in Thailand like the one he had at Ban Hin Taek.
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AMPHETAMINE [tSE SAID TO BE GROWING
- Bangkok BAN MUANG in Thai 20 Jan 82 pp 1, 16
- [Article: "Police Asked to Cooperate Tn Order to Quickly Suppress Amphetamines"]
[TextJ Dr Sem has admitted that [the use of] amphetamines is spreading seriously.
About 99 percent of the truck drivers use these drugs. These drugs are dangerous
to the body and mind but they can be purchased easily from drugstores everywhere.
On the morning of 19 January, Dr Sem Phringphuangkaeo, the minister of public
health, granted an interview before a cabinet meeting. He said that, at present,
after people take amphetamines, they feel very alert. This is a very popular
type of drug, especially among workers such as 10-wheel truck drivers. It
is thought that up to 90 [sic] percent of these drivers take these drugs.
~ At present, these drugs can be purchased very easily at various drugstores.
_ Another reason for the popularity of this type of drug is that, at present,
there are many factories. In Bangkok alone there are approximately 70 factories
that employ approximately 80,000 to 90,000 workers. It is probable that the
factory owners or oti~ers bring in these drugs and give them to the workers
in order to increase their work performance.
The minister of public health emphasized that-amphetam�nes are dangerous
to th~~ mental health of the people. He has tried to inform the people of
the fact that this type of drug can destroy [a person's] health. During the
first 4 hours after ingestion, the person will feel good, but after 8 hours,
it will begin to have a bad effect on the body and mind. If a person uses
this drug for a long time, he will become addicted.
Mr Amnuai Yotsuk, the deputy minister of public health, talked with reporters
aUout factories giving the workers amphetamines ?.n order to increase their
work performance. He said that he had ordered drug .inspections and officials
fram the Department of Health to go inspect the fa~ctories in order to take
samples of the food and water and check the urine. If such drugs are being
used, it is believed that the factories are in violation of many things,
bas:~d on the drug and labor acts. The employers are also at fault. At present,
activities are being coordinated with several government units.
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weie~l~inc~ 9.6 pounds and valued at 80 million baht, that were seized by officials
Erc~m th~ Phahoyothin Police Station. He confessed that a Malaysian had hired him
to transf~ort the heroin.
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I . THAILAND
HONG KONG MAN ARRESTED WITH HEROIN
Bangkok NATION REVIEW in English 9 Feb 82 p 3
['Text ] A HONG Kong�Chtneae man was Batlon by narcottca police of the Chang hae been !lving ln Thalland
yesterday apprehended atter CSb After the eelsure of over for 1~! yeara. He eaid: Chang
Crime Suppreselon Dlvialon po- aeven kllo~rammea ot hernln and worked in a mining buslneas in
lice ralded hls apartment and al- the capture of a Thal. mo4te Ratchaburt for 7 to B yeara and
legedly found S.1 kllogrammes of producer and two actteaeea at leter awltched to a roed conatruc-
high�grade No ~ heroln. Don Muang Alrpott over a week tlon bualneae.
The arreat of Chang Tuk Rung, ago. The heroln waa found In 80
alias Peter, 94, at Chamchan Pol Col Rungroi Yamakul, amall plaatlc bega hidden ln two
Court i~ Soi Thoaelor, Sukhumvlt auperlntendent of the Seventh auitcaeea In Chang's room, ~the
Road, followed lntenalve investl� Sub~lvlaion of the CSD, epld that pollce colonel alleged:
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~ THAILANC
COLUMNIST BLASTS EFFECTIVENESS OF ANTI-SUA RAID
Bangkok DAO SIAM in Thai 9 Feb 82 p 5
[Please Wait, Siin column by Tabi Chaophraya: "Thoughts Before Sunrise"]
- [Text] The poppies are still dazzling. I think people are correct F~hen they
say that even if Khun Sa dies, poppies will never die.
It is said that Khun Sa does not grow poppies but purchases raw opium, refines
~ it into heroin and sells it, just like the 93rd Division, which does not
grow poppies but makes money by running opium caravans. Even if Khun Sa leaves
Thailand, the poppies will still be beautiful and dazzling. About 4 kilometers
from Ban Hin Taek in the mountainous terrain, there are still very large
areas planted in poppy, just as there is on Doi Mae Salong.
In short, on both Doi Mae SaJ.ong and in the mountains about 4 kilometers
fYom Ban Hin Taek, on thousands of rai the poppies are blooming dazzingly
and waiting for the c3ay that they will turn into dangerous narcotics. This
product is produced by the various hill tribe groups that live on almost
all the mountains here. Such groups include the Mussah, Ikaw and Lisu.
The irregulars [thahan phran) that drove Khun Sa out have confirmed that
when they reached this area they smelled the strong smell of this plant.
But they were not ordered to destroy the poppies! This may have been becaus,e
the various hill tribes make their living growing poppy. That is, another .
group was encountered, one that much thought must be given to. This is what
Thailand is like!
This is our country but others come and settle down here. They (should] not
be above the la~~ but it seems like they are. They [should not] have any rights
but it seems that they do. ke can only claim this and that. It is even necessary
to "accept" them and give them comfort depending on the "reasons." Take the
_ case of the United Nations refugees in Thailand, of which (only) 190,000
remain. Mr William Samaiser, the deputy high commissioner for refugees, has
said that these refugees should be given Thai citizenship and al~owed to
settle down permanently in Thailand.
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They know this is not rigYit. Thail.and is the one who has given these refugees
_ a place to stay. But, as everyone knows, the Nobel Prize for Peace was given
' to the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for R~fugees. Yes. Thailand cannot
get away from the word "must." We must accept these stateless people for
humanitarian reasons and so on.
We proba~ly cannot take any strong action against those who come to stay
in Thailand for various reasons, and this includes the hill tribes who grow
poppies for a living because of the various "reasons." But when everything
is added up, it cannot be said that the Thais are the ones who "profit."
I am not blaming the Prem government for all these accumulated problenis because
the various diseases a_�flicting Thailand are like a chronxc cancer th~n cannot
~ be cured or that have been ignored so long that we are now in a coma.
In the report the "Smell of the Poppies," it is well known, isn't it, that
300,000 to 600,000 Thais between the ages of 16 and 24 are slaves to narcotics.
They spend approximately 9.8 to 19.7 billion baht a year on drugs. How can
~ we suppress narcotics? Tne only ones we can suppress are the small pushers!
~ Or is there some way to "elin,~~nate the weeds by digging up the roots?"
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THAILANv
MARIHUANA SEIZED IN G`HACHOENGSAO
Bangkok DAO SIAM in Thai 14 Feb 82 p 16
[Article: "Young Man Transporting 1 Million Baht Worth of Marihuana By Truck
to Bangkok [Is Arrested]"]
[Text] A DAO SIAM reporter assiqned to Chachoengsao Province has reported
~hat at 2200 hours on 12 February, Police Captain Wattana Charoensak, the
_ deputy chief inspector at the Chachoengsao provincial police sta.tion in Bangnam-
- prieu District, together with Police Sublieutenant Thirachai~Chinsadathien,
the head of the investigation section of the Special Operations Unit, and
a force of officials went and inspected an unlicensed 6-wheel Hino truck
belonging to Mr Michai Chaiwangsap, age 23, who lives at 128 Village 1, Tharae
Commune, Muang District, Sakon Nakhon Province. The zruck was parked in front
of a Shell gasoline station opposite the Khlong Chao market along the Chachoengsao-
- Minburi highway in Bangnamprieu District, Chachoengsao Province.
During their search, the officials found 293 bags of marihuana, each weiqhing 6
kilograms, valued at approximately 1 million baht hidden in the compartment
in the rear of the truck. The bags had been covered with bricks to keep them
concealed from officials. The officials placed Mr Michai, the driver of the
truck, under arrest, seized the marihuana as evidence and turned the suspect
and evidence over to Police Sublieutenant Chaiyong Kritsanachinda, the officer
on duty at the provincial police station in Bangnamprieu District for further
investigation. Mr Michai stated that this marihuana did not belong to him
but to Mr Noi (surname unknown), who, he said, had paid him 2,000 baht to
transport it to Bangkok. But while Mr Michai was parked in front of the gasoline
station waiting for another person t~ come and drive the marihuana the rest
_ of the way into Bangkok, the officials came and arrested him. While they
were searching the truck of Mr Michai, they noticed two pickup trucks drive
up and survey the scene in front of the gasoline station. It is thought that
- these pickup trucks were the ones that were to meet the truck of Mr michai
but thE two pickup trucks then sped off. After the investigation was completed,
the officials placed Mr Michai under arrest for further handling of the case.
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_ THAILAND
IRREGULAR TROOPS SAID TO BE MISUSED IN BAN HIN TAEK RAID
Bangkok MATICHON in Thai 7 Feb 82 p 6 ~
w [Article: "The Secret 25 Million Baht Operation to Eliminate Khun Sa"]
[TextJ "Last October, we received an intelligence report that a large shipment
of opium would be transported into Thailand. The gavernment ordered the irregular:.
[thahan phran] to intercept this shipment of opium. They did so and were
also ab e to destroy three heroin refineries near the border," stated Major
General Chaowalit Yongchaiyut, the director of the Directorate of ~Jperations,
on the "Conversations About the Country's Problems" program on the evening
of 31 January.
He stated that in this operation, we lost one lieutenant and six warrant
officers. The aim was to draw Khun Sa's forces away to the west so that ths
other 32 niembers of the [governnent's) force could escape.
MATICHON has, checked the report file and it appears that this is exactly
the opposite of what the Information Office of Supreme Command Headquarters
reported on 8 October 1981. It reported that soldiers from the Third Army
Area clashed with about 700 soldiers of unknown nationality on 7 October
in the area of Ko Samakhi Village, which is located along the Thai-Burmese
border in Chiang Rai Province. The fight continued through 8 October.
'l~t~l~ty nine irregulars were ordered to go intercept a shipment of opium that
- was being guarded by 700 men (accor~ing to estimates of Supreme Command Head-
quarters). TY~is does not make sense. First, how could just 39 irregulars
engage a drug caravan since each caravan is escorted by hundreds of inen.
Second, these irregulars came from the Pak Thongchai camp in Nakhon Ratchasima.
Most of them were northeasterners who were unfamiliar with the terrain. And
what is important is that intercepting and destroying such caravans is the
dt~t.y of the border patrol police.
- Thus, there was probably something secret behind the venture of these ~9
- fearless irregulars.
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A high-rankinc~ ne:vs source of the border patrol police told MATICHON that
the task of tJiese irregulars was not to intercept the opium shipment but
' rather to kil.l Khun Sa, for whom a 500,000 baht reward has been o�fered.
' Reports have stated that the army's Spscial Operations Center was the unit
that coordinated things and formed the force. The government of one great-
- power country that has a po]~icy of suppressing narcotics supported this by
giving 25 million baht.
Of this 25 million baht, 13 million was used to purchase M16s with infrared
- [scopes] for the 39 irregulars, who underwent rigorous selection, anc two
_ pieces of infrared equipment. As for the remaining 12 million baht, it was
used for the "personal expenses" of this unit that was to carry out ~ very
risky opera~ion. Each p~rson received an average of approximately 400,000 baht.
This small operations unit was led by Lieutenant Athaphon (surname unknown).
It was composed nf eight warrant officers and 30 irregulars.
This brave unit travellPd from the Pak Thongchai irregular camp in Nakhon
Ratchasima to the Pratu Pha camp in Chiang Rai Province at the beginning
of October 1981. Then at ~400 hours one morning they were dropped off in
the Ban Sansai area, which is approximately 8 kilometers from Mae Sai District.
From there, they walked through the jungle into the area of influence of
Khun Sa in Burma. They clashed with forces of Khun Sa for the first time
in an area about 4 kilometers from the Thai border. The news source stated
_ that, during this clash, the irregulars killed 70 of Khun Sa's men when they
attacked in the night in order to wipe out the irregulars. After this clash,
this brave unit tried to make its way south. It had two more clashes with
the forces of Khun Sa at Ban Mussar Puna-Chati. The news source stated that
the unit killed about 10~ of Khun Sa's men. This brave unit fled and re-entered
Thailand at Ban Aku on 7 October. Forces of Khun Sa were moved in to eliminate
it from both Burma and Thailand, that is, from the Ban Hin Taek area. Finding
himself in th~s situation,. Lieuter..ant Athaphon ordered his force to disband
so that they could escape.
~ A special report in the 8-14 1981 issue of Prachamit on this top secret operation,
an operation so secret that even Border Patrol Police Company 508, which
is stationed near Ban Hin Taek, did not learn of the operation until after
tha clash, said that Border Patrol police Company 508 aided the eight irregulars
who were wounded, which is in addition to the 10 who were killed. As for the
others, the report stated that it is understood that they were captured by
- Khun Sa's forces. In this clash, inside Burma, Kh~sn Sa's forces numbered
at least 2,000 men.
It is no*_ known whether tnis operation by this brave unit was carried out
in order to intercept the shi.pment of opium or to kill Khun Sa and receive
the 500,000 baht reward, or even the 25 million baht. But in any event it
was a heroic operation and it should be publicized much more than it has
been instead of being hushed up as if there was something hateful behind it.
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THAILAND
~ BRILFS
DRUG SEMINAR--Deputy Prtme Minister Gen Prachuap Suntharangkun, who is also
chairman of the Office of the Narcotics Control Board [ONCB], declared open
the 5-day seminar on the prevention and treatment of drug dependence. ~ome
100 delegatea from Thailand and abroad, including internationaY organiza-
tions, attended the conference ~oint~.y sponsored by the Internationa~
Council on Alcohol and Addiction, ONCB, and the Colombo Plan. The confer-
ence aims to hold wide discussions on drug dependence, including alcohol and
other drugs, as well as legal and law enforcement intervention, therapeutic
intervention, treatment and rehabilitation. [Bangkok Voice of Free Asia in
English 1100 GMT 22 Mar 32 BK]
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- CANADA
CONVICTION FOR COCAINE, MARIJtiANA TRAFFICKING
Windsor THE WINDSOR STAR in English 26 Feb 82 p A8
[Article by Gary Rennie]
[Text]
Joseph Bowyer was convict- THE JURY found Bcwyer ' men p~id a185,000 for thc
ed by an EsseA County Court guilty Wednesday of,posses- property, now aalled the Pilot
jury Thursday of possession sion of 24 grams of cocaine, House~hesaid.
for the purpose of trafficking 861 grams of marijuana, six BOWYER said he loaned
in cocaine and mari juana. vials of hash oil and posses- more than 520,000 to Hunter
The 59-year-old Windsor sion of an unregistered hand- but wasn t repaid and claimed
busincssman will be sen- g~n ~ he took the drugs, a handgun,
- tenced April S by visiting The issue of traf~cking was and other drug-rolated items
County Court Judae Frank dcalt with separately by the from Hunter as collateral on
Dunlap. jury. The burden of proof is on the loan. He said he had no
He was remanded out of plans to sell the drugs himsbif.
custody pending sentencing the ace~sed to shov~ that on a But Schwart~ said it didn'l
balance of probabilities he
but will report once� a wcek to was in possession of ttie drugs make sense for Bowyer to take
Windsorpolice. d~ugs from Hunter as collat-
Bowyer testified that co- for a purpose other than traf- eral when Hunter's interest in
caine found b RCMP in his ficking. the marina.exceeded the val-
car and other drugs found in The cocaine and two loaded ueof theloan.
his Windsor a artmcnt be- handguns were found when
p Bosvyer was stopped in his car RCMP, Sgt. Tom Stimpson,
longed to a now-deceased a handwriting analyst and
busincss artner and that he by RCMP Mar~h 13, 1980,
p not far from' his Riverside document examiner, tcstificd
had accepted the drugs as Drive East apartment. he examined known samples
collateral on a loan. ~
BOWYER also denied that A 5EARCH of Bowyer s of Bowyer's handwriting and
records seized from his apart- apartment after his arrest compared it with the han-
ment by RCMP and dcaling turned up $61 grams of mari- dwritten records dealing with .
with drug transactions were juana in two plastic bags, six ' drug transactions that were
written by him. vials df hash oil, weighing ~ found in Bowyer's apartment.
But federal prosecutor.Shcl- scales, and equipment that SGT. STIMPSON said he
don Schwartz told the jury can be~ used to test the purity was satisfied all the records hc
Bowyer's story was ridiculous. of cocaine. compared were written by
Schwartz said it made no Bowyer invested in mortgag- Bowyer. ,
sense for a businessman of es in Windsor under his own RCMP Sgt. John Pratt, thc
Bowyer's experi~nce to ac- name and a company name of ~ officer in charge of the force's
St. Clair Investrnents. local dru section, 'said the
cept drugs �as collateral on a He was also a co-owner of a g
loan. The dr.ugs had no value value of cocaine at the time of
LaSalle marina with Gary Bow er's. arrest was about
un:ass thcy were sold, he poin- Parent and Roger Hunter~ y
ted out. who died last year. The three ~1,800 to 52,600 per ounce .
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and S90 to 5110 per gram ~ accepted a�box of drUgs and~
when sold on the street. drug�relat~d equipment from
Pratt said the value of 861 Hunter, it would have made
grams of marijua~na would more sense for; him �to have
have been about 51,000 to put the boz away m a secure
51,100. The hash oil would place,Schwartzsaid.
have sol~ for S30 to S35 for a Instead, Bowyer had various
oncgram vial, 6e said, items ~ around his apartment,
pRATT SAID the rccords including a substance used to
found in Bowyer's apartment dilute cocaine in his ref~igera-
dealt with a series of drug tor. This was consistent with
transactions. . ~an existing dru~ . operation,
Schwartz said. .
Those records, which~ have
bcen made ezhibits in the tri-
al, refer to a latge number of
transactions in cocaine, mes-
caline, LSD, hash oil and
C:~:,i uruga. � ~
Schwart~ tolri the ;~ry the
evi;ience showed ?sowyer was
a dr,ig dealer at the distribu=
- tor level, not the street level.
At the time of his arrest,
Bowyer had two loaded hand-
guns in the front seat area of
the car, a holster under the
soat, and cocaine in the glove
compartment and trunk of his
car, Schwartz noted. All this,
he said, was cot?sistent with
the operation of a drug dealer.
IF BOWYER had reaUy
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CANADA
MAN JAILED ON DRUG CHARGES CALLED MAJOR NIAGARA SELLER
Toronto THE GLOBE AND MAIL? WEEKEND EDITION in English 6 Feb 82 p 5
[Text]
Court was told that Charles Ryall told
W ELLAND - A mau Mr. Mitchell was seen to Judge G. G. Nicholls
described as a major enter the forest and pull that Mr. Mitchell was a
supplier ot illicit drugs the cocaine from a rot- good neighbor,
in the Niagara Region ten l~g. He had a Ger-
was sentenced in County man shepherd dog with ln passing sentence,
Court yesterday to eight him, but the animal Judge Nicholls noted
years in prison on four failed to notice the hid- .~hat Mr. Mitchell com-
drug charges, including den watchecs, even ' mitted the 1981 offences
possession of ~,50a,000 though it once passed While out on bail on
worth of cocaine for the within five feet of two Previous drug charges.
purposes of trafficking. policemen.
David Gordon Mit- Mr. Mitchell and his
chell, 42, of Fort Erie, dog also failed to notice
pleaded guilty to the two pollcemen 65 feet up
cocaine char~e in addi- a tree, hidden behind a
tion to a charge ot pos- rough blind of twigs.
sessing !0 pounds ot When police called to
marijuana valued at Mr. Mitchell, he ran and
$9,000 for the purposes one officer [ired a warn-
o( trafticking. ing shot into the air. Mr.
'The charges were laid Mitchell tell to the
in September, 1981, by Bround and threw the
the IViagara Regional botde away.
Police drug ~cquad, [n a search of his
which had staked out house after the arrest,
Mr. Mitchell's secluded police [ound watchdogs
country home for two stationed around the
weeks and arrested him property and a jaguar
when he retrieved a chained to the entrance
- mayonnaise jar cantain- to the house. Mr. Mit-
ing 1~,~ pounds of nlmost chell also kept a gaggle
pure coc~ine from an ot geese, the best wern-
- el~borate system of . ing system in the worid,
hiding places in a torest Sgt. Stan Kryss said.
next to his property. Defence lawyer
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' CANADA
FIVE IMPRISONED P'OR NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING
Windsor THE SATURDAY WINDSOR STAR in English 27 Feb 82 p A3
' [Text]
Five men werz sentenced in Essex ~they were detained, the cocaine was
County Court to long prison tcrms this , found on Benic~.
week for possessian of narcotics for the In an unrelated case, threc area men
purposeof trafficking. received prison terms after lhey pleaded
_ Patnck Benicy, 27, of Montreal was guilty to consFiracy to traffic in marijua-
sentanced to 42 months in prison, and co- na. �
accused, Ahthony Andreoni, 23, of Plan- Gary Freisinger, 23, and Graziano
tation, Fla., received an 18�month sen- Callegari, 27, both of Windsor, wcre
tence. sentenced to 30 months in prison, and a
_ Both mcn pieadcd Auilty to possession co-accused, Mike Gillis, 27, of Colchest-
of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. er, received a 24-month sentence.
They were arrested Nov. 13 on thc Cana- The thrcc men werc arrestcd July 7,
' dian sidc of the Windsor-Dctroit tunncl 1980, in P/yandottc, Michigan, as thcy
attempting to smugglc in 14 ounces of werc loading a boat with 104 poun~s of
cocaine worth more than $200,000 ~vhen marijuana worth more than 5100,000
broken down and sold on the street. when spld on thesircct.
At thc time of their arrest, the two men '1'HE THREE WERE also under sur-
were under surveillance by a combined veillance by RCMP, Michigan State
force of RCMP and U.S. drug cnforce- Po~~ce, and U.S. drug enforcement ad=
ment administration agcnts. , m~mstration agents at thc time.
They were obscrvcd picking up the
_ Bcnicy and Andreoni wcre sccn by marijuana in Rivcrsidc, Mich. and trans-
- a~cr.ts Icaving a car together on thc U.S. porting it to a Wyandotte marina. ~
of the tunnel and then gct on a tunncl All five men +vcrc originally charged
bus. ' with importing narcotics, which carrics a
THEY SAT IN separatc seats on thc minimum sentencc of seven ycars in pris-
bus and approached Canadian immigra- on, but plcadcd guilty to tlic lcsscr
tion officials scparately as wcll. Aftcr chargcs.
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CANADA
BRIEFS
= HEROIN SEIZED--A 28-yearrold Prince George man has been cha.rged following
the sei,zure at Vancouver International Airport of 95 grams of heroin with a
street sale value of about $1 million. Jeremy Edward Nelson-Kent appeared
_ Monday in Rich~nond pr~vincial court and was remanded in custody to today.
Nelson-Kent is charged with tmporting a narcotic and possession of heroin
for the purpase of trafficking. [Text] [Vancouver THE VANCOUVER SUN in
_ English 26 .Tan 82 p F8 ]
DRLfGS SPUR CRIME WAVE--Monrreal (CP)--The illegai drug trade has reached an
all-time high in Montreal high schools and many students are turning to crime
to support their habits including establishing their own drug-selling ring,
says the head of the Montreal police drug squad. Robbery is the most common
method used by teenagers to obtain money to purchase drugs, Det.-Capt. Henri
Marchessault said. Police statistics indicate 46 per cent of armed robberies
in MontreaY are committed by teenagers. "The authors of these crimes often
use the meney they obtain as capital to set up their own traff icking busi-
nessesr" the detective says. Because of the illicit nature of the trade,
~ statistics are hard to formulate, but Marchessault estimates that the com-
~ bined mar~3uana and hashish market in the city is worth hundreds of millions
of d~llars. Once accustomed to trafficking in so-called soft drugs, young
people confidently turn to involvement in networks importing hard drugs such
- as cocaine and heroin, adds RCMP Insp. A1 Breau. [Text] [Vancouver THE
VANCOUVER SUN in English 3 Feb 82 p B2]
CSO: 5320/23
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ARGENTINA
= BRIEFS
_ ADDICTS ARRESTED--La Plata, 21 Mar--The Narcotica Department has arrested drug
= addicts Jose Alberto Martin, Argentine, 36; and Uruguayan citizens Miguel
- Angel Bermengo, 21; Martin Alvez Lopez, 25; and Romulo Ambrosio Vales Viera,
26. During the operation 250 grams of cocaine were seized. [PY261444 Buenos
Aires CRONICA in Spanish 22 Mar 82 p 8]
1 TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED--Buenos Aires, 23 Mar (TELAM)--Police Offjcer Lucas Belich
_ reported today on the arrest of 18 members of two drug traffic.'king organiza-
tions and on the seizure of 10 and 1/2 kg of marihuana worth '141,500,000 Argen-
tine pesos. The arrested persons are: Jose Serafin Aiello, ~lso known as
, Pepe; Ruben Armando Moreno, also known as E1 Japones; Juan Carlos Perez, also
known as Pingui; Carlos Alberto Ropano; Luis Roberto Gallino; Jorge E. Pillon;
Nestor Angel Mentrina; Alberto Daniel ~osa; Mario Manuel Nunez; Raul E. Cairo;
Adolfo Javier Aquilino; Enriqu~ Juan Scamani; Jose Angel Gentile; Jose Damasco
Fernandez; Alejandro Biardini; Hugo Guillermo Nenervini; Eduardo Daniel Brener,
and a minor whose identity has not be~en disclosed for legal reasons. [PY261444
Buenos Aires TELAM in Spanish 1715 GMT 23 Mar 82]
TRAFFICKERS KILLED, ARRESTED--Salta, 17 Mar (TEI~AM)--Authorized sourcea re-
ported here today that one unidentified drug trafficker was ehot dead and 10
others were arrested in an operation staged yesterday morning on Route 34 be-
tween the border town of Pocitos and the city of Tartagal, north of Salta.
About 1,000 kg of coca leaves and 6 kg of cocaine, allegedly manufactured in
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, were seized in the operation. [PY201813
Buenos Aires TET..AM in Spanish 1343 GMT 17 Mar 82]
CSO: 5300/2244
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BOLIVIA
BRIEFS
TRAFFICKERS ESCAPE PRISON--La Paz, 9 Mar (AFP)--It was reported here today
that six drug traffickers [as received] have e~caped from the prieon in the
city of Cochabamba. 1Fao of them have been recaptured, one was wounded in a
confrontation, and Emilio Orellana, Andres Vusquez, Pedro Tapia, Pedro Villaroel
and Pedro Esquivel are in hiding. Similarly, the Cochabamba police authorities
reported that several hooded men, who passed themselves off as officials of the
narcotics department, robbed a house located near the city of Cochabamba and
killed one person. [PY261444 Paris AFP in Spaniah 2204 GMT 9 Mar 82]
COCAINE FACTORY DISMANTLED--Santa Cruz, 15 Mar (PRESENCIA)--According to an of-
ficial report, the army has dismantled a cocaine factory near the Japanese
colony of Okinawa, 3 km from Santa C~uz., Thirty people were arrested and 54 kg
_ of cocaine base were seized during the operation. [PY261444 La Paz PRESENCIA in
Spanish 16 Mar 82 p 4]
~)FFICER DISCHARGED FOR TRAFFICKING--La Paz, 17 Mar (AFP)--It was reported here
today thut Bolivian Army C^1 ~Pwt) Angel Garcia Ricaidi, has b~en dishonorabl.~
discharged for having been discovered transporting five trucks loaded with coca
toward San Bor~ a, in the north of the country. [PY261444 Paria AFP in Spanish
0000 GMT 18 Mar 82]
OFFICIAL CONVICTID ON DRUG TRAFFICKING--Miami, U.S., 22 Mar (AFP)--Former Sec-
retary General of the Bolivian Agriculture Ministry Marcilio Ibanez Velez
was sentenoed by a federal court here today to 2 years imprisonment for having
tried to smuggle $8.5 million worth of cocaine into the United States. Federal
_ Judge Eugene Spellman said when he pronovnced the verdict that the defendant
could be released on his own cognizance after completing at least one-third
of the sentence. U.S. suthorities were not able to capture Ibanez Ve1ez, 35,
when the crime took place, but he traveled voluntarily to the United States
in January and confeased his guilt. [Text] [PY231340 Paris AFP in Spanish
0307 GMT 23 Mar 82]
CSO: 5300/2244
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. BRAZIL
BRIEFS
COCAINE SEIZED--The police seized 2.65 kg of cocaine in Rio de Janeiro yester-
day. The following persons were arrested: Joao Candido da Silva, Jose
Quintino Pereira (57) and his sons Aldo Quintino Barreto (22) and Francisco
Jose Pereira (34). [PY261444 Rio de Janeiro JORNAL DO BRASIL in Portuguese
19 Mar 82 p 18]
CSO: 5300/2244
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COLOMBIA
MEXICAN COCAINE DEALER ACHIEVES FREEDOM
Bogota EL TIII~O in Spanish 28 Feb 8'L p 2-A
[Article: "A Mexican Trafficker Scoffed at Everyone and Ia Free"]
[ Text] The "cock-and-bull story" of a lawyer, the apparent venality of a
Legal Medicine official, and also the apparent ingenuousness of a criminal
court 3udge made it possible for a powerful and dangerous international drug
" trafficker to scoff at the Colombian authorities and to go to Mexico, his native
country.
David Enrique Kuri Mercader, a cocaine trafficking "leader," made use of every
kind of trick to regain his frpedom, after his arrest in Bogota oz this past
4 December. When attempts at bribery of officials failed, his lawyer, with the
help of alleged relatives, resorted to one of the legal provisions of the Legal
Procedure Code and it turned out that the arrested person calmly flew of:' to his
country.
The odd but not unusual episode began some.days before 14 December 1981, when
the Judicial Police of Eldorado received confidential information concerning the
imminent arrival in Bogota of the Mexican drug trafficker, David Enrique Kuri
Mercadez, who was to arrive from Lima.
Detectives waited patiently until the arrival of the individual, who ~ntered the
country, seemingly in conformity with legal procedures. Then the suspected per-
son was carefully followed. On 14 December he arrived at the Eldorado airport,
to board a plane for Miami.
Kuri's Version
When the detectives searched David Enrique Kuri, they found 4 kilos of cocaine
hidden on his body. On being analyzed at the Legal Medicine Institute, the
cocaine was declared 98 percent pure.
At first Kuri Mercader gave a fantastic version, which obviously was not accepted
bq the authorities. He said that when he was in Unicentro he became acquainted
with som~ unknown persons, and that they soon afterwaru put him in an automobile
and told him that if he did not take a shipment of drugs to the United States,
they would retaliate against Kuri's relatives in Mexico. And that, being
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pressured by this threat, he had decided to carry out the orders of the gang-
sters.
When Kuri Mercader realized how skeptical the Judicial Police wer2 of his
_ "story," he changed tactics and offered money to the investigators if they
would provide him with a favorab~e version. He told them that they should say
that when he, Kuri, was arrested, he told the police that they had saved him
from the threats of gangsters. ~
But the officials refused the offer, reported ~he fact, and placed the Mexican
at the disposition of Judge 66 of the criminal court, Margot de Barragan. This
- officer ordered that Kttri be detained.
In the face of the failure of the above mentioned tricks, Kuri's lawyer decided
to change his strategy. A powerful Mexican millionaire industrialist, Jose
David Kuri Haddade, then appeared at the trial. He said that he was David
Enrique's father and, in support of this, he presented a civil record to
_ establish the relationship. �
Then the industrialist said that his health was affected by the altitude of
Bogota and went to Cartagena "on an emergency basis." ^~here, Algio de Leon,
a physician in the service of the Legal Medicine Institute, diagnosed Kuri
Haddade as being in imminent danger of death. Kuri's lawyer used this certifi-
cation and referred to article 452 of the Penal Procedure Code, which allows
the suspension of preventive detention if the arrested person "is afflicted
with a serious illness or when one of his immediate relatives or offspring, or
the pers4n's husband or wife, is in iffiinent danger of death in the ~udgment of
official doctors."
_ Judge 66 of the criminal court, Margot de Barragan, heard the petition of the
lawyer, decreed suspension of the detention, and returned Kuri's passport to
him. She abstained, however,~'from obtaining authentication through consular
channels of. the civil record that presumably established that the "sick person"
was really Kuri's father. Also, she omitted legal arrangements regarding sur-
veillance for the person who had been granted the previously mentioned suspen-
sion.
Judge Margot de Barragan's decision produced a"miraculous cure" in the health
of. industrialist Jose David Kuri Haddade and the latter, accampanied by his
alleged son, "as soari as he was free" flew up and away to Mexico, very much out
of reach of the hands of Colombian authorities.
In the face of such mockery, the legal department of Bogota, headed by lawyer
_ Fernando Navas Talero and the Attorney General's Office of the Nation, and through
the Judicial Police, started an investigation, according to which it was
established that Kuri Haddade had never been sick and that, ir? addition, it
was never fully verified that he was the father of the drug trafficker.
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! One of the indignant investigators of this case told EL TIEMPO that the gangsters
~ are right when they say that in Colombia "when the judicial authorities are not
stupid, they can be bought." And international drug trafficking organizations
~ make good use of this circumstance. They coldly calculate everything..."
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COLOMBIA
BRIEFS
MARIHUANA SEIZED IN CESAR--Seven tona of marihuana ready for export were
seized by the Colombian narcotics police in Becerril and Cadazzi, Cesar
Department. The drug traffickers fled before the police arrived. A
clandestine airstrip with gasoline for refueling sirplanes uaed for trans-
porting marihuana was discovered in La Piauela, (Pidi~ay), Magdalena
Department. [PA2618U9 Bogota Radio Cadena Nacional in Spanish 1730 GMT
24 Mar 82]
CSO: 5300/2221
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R,imiro Vazquez Garza, ~dwiges Enrique Martinez Vazquez, Abraham Martinez
V~~�r.quez, Santos Vazquez Garza and Pedro Villarreal Trevino were arrested by
el~c I~ederal Police in a gully running from Guerrero to Sabinas, with a large
sl~ipment of smuggled electronic items. The latter was found to have half a
gram of cocaine in his possession.
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CSO: 5330/70
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;
SMUGGLERS OF ELECTRONIC GOODS CAPTURED WITH COCAINE
; Nuevo Laredo EL MANANA in Spanish 18 Feb 82 Sec D p 9
[Text] Agents of the Federal Judicial Police confiscated television sets and
all types of electronic items in a gully between Guea-rero and Sabinas Hidalgo,
and succeeded in arresting five individuals, one of whom had with him half a
gram of ~ocaine, whicli he claimed to be for his personal consumption.
Ramiro Vazquez Garza, Edwiges Enrique Martinez Vazquez, Abraham Martinez
Vazquez, Santos Vazquez Garza and Pedro Villarreal Trevino are the individu-
als who were captured by the Federal Police and taken t:o this port to be
placed at the disposal of the federal prosecutor on charges of smuggling.
Villarreal Trevino is the one found to have in his possession a small piece
of paper containing a substance that was said to be cocaine, to which he
= claimed to be addicted. Now, the pol.ice will question him concerning the
manner in which that drug was supplied to him.
The contraband, valued at 300,000 pesos, will be turneci over to the customs
, authorities, according to the Federal Public Ministry, together with two
vehicles, a pickup truck and a Volkswagen in whi~ch they were carrying the
i smuggled goods. They stated that they were attempting to carry the latter
~o Sabinas.Hiflalgo, Nuevo Leon, where they would seek the means of shipping
them farther aouth.
i
As has been noted, the Federal Judicial Police have been dealing heavy blows
to the smuggling of goods all along the border strip.
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MEXICO
BRIEFS
HEROIN RING SUSPECTS ARRESTED--One of the ma~or figures in the border drug
traffic, considered to have had this status for years, was captured by the
Federal Judicial Police yesterday in this town, in an operation carried out
to arrest the ringleader of the drug trafficking group that has been active
in this region. The foregoing was reported to EL DIARIO yesterday by Federal
- Judicial Police sources, in connection with others allegedly arrested wi~h
Enrique Campos. The information provided last night was brief, and no offi-
cial report or bulletin was issued announcing this important arrest. As may
be recalled, Gustavo Campos (Enrique's brother), an individual who had been
arrested with Beto Rodriguez, in Guadalajara, with over 8 ounces of pure
cocaine, was released a few months ago. The trail of a presumed heroin distri-
Lution in this port is being followed, as is a purchase and sale contact which
reportedly took place within the past few days. It is not known whether
Enrique Campos was captured with any drugs, and it has been claimed that
some more information regarding this arrest may be provided today. [Text]
[Piedras Negras EL DIARIO DE PIEDRAS NEGRAS in Spanish 5 Mar 82 Sec A p 2]
2909
MARIHUANA SHIPMENT SEIZED--A total of 250 kilograms of marihuana concealed in
the double bottom of a tank-type truck coming from Nayarit was seized by
Federal Judicial Police forces at the Ben~amin Hill plant health station.
The drugs are worth 11.5 million pesos on the black market in the United
States, the country to which they were enroute. The Federal Public Ministry
agent, Pablo Ernesto Avila Triana, announced that the arrests of those
responsible took place in two parts. The first one oc~urred on the Altar-
Caborca highway, where the federal agents arrested Jesus Hector Lopez Beltran
and Leonido Noriega Lopez, who were traveling in a 1977 Ford pickup truck with
State of Mexico license plates. When they were suh~ected to close questioning,
those arrested stated that they had been dri~vin~ in �.order':~A~~�imd the tank-type
truck driven by Manuel Vazquez Torres, to obtain the marihuana shipment that
was later to be taken into the United States for sale. A few moments later,
those responsible for the aforementioned drugs gave the names of two other
individuals implicated in this drug traffic, namely, the following: Jose
Cruz Felix and Miguel Orozco, who were also arrested and placed at the
disposal of the agent of the Federal Puhlic Ministry. Avila Triana also
~ reported that the 250 kilo~rams carried in the lower section of the tank-
type truck, which had been divided into 43 cardboard boxes, is the largest
marihuana seizure made this year. [Text] [Hermosillo EL IMPARCIAL in Spanish
11 Mar 82 Sec A p 2] 2909
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NINE DRUG PLAN7'ATIONS DESTROYED--A total of nine plantations on which poppies
and marihuana were being grown, located in the Alamos mountain area, on Cajon
de Guirocosa, a communal farm belonging to the municipality of Alamos, Sr~nora,
were burned by forces from the Fourth Military Zone, affiliated with the
- Canador (Ma.rihuana-Poppy] Plan. The agent of the Federal Public Ministry,
Pablo Ernesto Avila Triana, stated that on these plantations, which covered
an area of approximately 5 hectares, two persons answering to the names of
- Gregorio Leon Ochoa and Luciano Apodaca Cebreros were arrested. Both were
communal farmers, who were responsible for tending four plantations in that
area. He added that, when these individuals were questioned, they gave the
names of other subjects who are more directly involved in the planting of
these types of drugs, and who ur.ill not be mentioned for purposes relating to
the investigation, since it is intended to capture the ringleaders of this
or~anized gang. As. for the value of the drugs which were burned, Avila Triana
said that the plants per se have no value except for the product extracted
from them after they have been planted for some time, namely, heroin. In
this case, he noted, it is estimated that the organized underworld ring
intended to procure heroin which, when processed, would command a price of
2 million pesos on the black market. He said that the most important aspect
_ of this case is the fact that, when these drug plantations are de~troyed, the
Mexican farmers are reincorporated into the country's food pro'duction, while
at the same time the marketing of drugs is eradicated. [Text] [Hermosillo
EL Irg'ARCIAL in Spanish 10 Mar 82 Sec A p 10) 2909
CUSTOPIS GUAItD, TItE1FF1CKER KILLED--A drug trafficker with a sinister record in
tllis town was killed early Tuesday morning during a gun battle with customs
~;uards in a gully before h~ could reach Monterrey, Nuevo I.eon. According to
tiie reports supplied from rionterrey by.the commander of the Seventh Customs
'l,one, Jesus Avalos Ficachi, the deceased answered to the name of Rodolfo
G,irza Cortez, alias "E1. Opi"; however., the name of the guard killed in the
skirmish was not pro~~ided, because the Nuevo I,eon authorities are continuin~;
Cl~e Lnvestigation. It was said that Garza Cortez was driving a small truck
chrc~ugh tiie gully, where a checkpoint had been established by the customs
c~ft=i.cials, who ordered the trafficker to halt; but the latter, instead of
~~;~,~yin~ the command, r.esponded by firing a pisto].. One of the bullets aimed
,:it tile group of custc~ms of�icials hit a member of the latter, and hence they
i-ct~.irned the Pire, killing the drug trafficker. This individual had been
incarcerated in ttie T,a Loma prison on several occasions, on charges of crimes
a~ainst health; and his ci�iminal career began in 1971. The latest action
take.n against Garza Cortez was brought by the penal judge of the first
i.~i~;~aci;~e, for the comrnission of a crime of stealing livestock; and he was
- rc~leaseci in that case on 29 June of last year. Thus far, the reasons for
~he decea~ecl's firing at the guards are unknown, but it is presumed that the
rruck which re cvas driving was stolen, and that at the same time he was
c:~irryir.g foreign goods brought into the country illegally. [Text] [Nuevo
L~~r~.cio EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO in Spanish 4 Mar 82 Sec A p 8] 29U9
rir1RIHUANA TRAFFICKERS JAILED--Yesterday, the second district judge issued a
writ ior o~fi.cial imprisonmenC of Jose Luis Rodriguez Robles, or Luis Manuel
Rud.riguez Robles, alias "La Escalera", and Francisco Galvan Urbina, as
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- individuals presumed guilty of a crime againat health in the degree of mari-
huana transportation. Following their release from ~ail, the two sub~ects
' heard the decision of the judge in whose ~urisdiction the action to be taken
against them .�or the crime committed previously uTill he continued. 'rhe
Federal Judicial Police arrested "La Escalera" and his wife, Grise~da Zamudio,
as well as Francisco, when they were traveling.in a Mexican Airlin~s plane
last Wednesday, carrying with them three suitcases filled with marihu~na,
having a total weight of 30 kilograms. Naturally, "La Escalera" and Galvan
Urbina denied the charges, particularly the statements that they had made
to the State Judicial Police guard, claiming that they had been pressured to
declare themselves guilty. The release of Griselda Zamudio took place at
the agency of the Federal Public Ministry, according to the legal reserva-
tions, after the other two had stated that she had nothing to do with this
_ case. "La Escalera", a sub~ect with a police record in this town, had been
watched for some time, when it was found that he was trafficking with grass,
using the Mexican Airlines plane arriving from Mexico City. At first, this
subject confessed that he had been engaged in this illegal busin.ess for some
time. [Text] [Nuevo Laredo EL MANANA in Spanish 3 Ma.r 82 Sec B p 7] 2909
CSO: 5330/73
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PANAMA
ROUTES, METHODS OF COLOMBIAN COCAINE TRAFFICKERS DISCUS~Ln
Sao Paulo 0 ESTADO DE SAO PAULO in Portuguese 7 Mar 82 p 180
[Article by John Alius]
[Text] Panama, by virtue of its strategic position as the
_ hub of air traffic in the Western Hemisphere, is today an
important point of intersection in international drug
smuggling. Although precise statistics are unavailable
on the volume of traffic in the country, it is estimated
- that about $20 billion annually in cocaine, marijuana and
other narcotics destined for consiuner countries pass
through Panama. The narcotics ori~inate primarily in
Colombia, which in recent years b.as become notorious for
its cocaine; the,y arrive in the Caribbean aboard cemmercial
and private air.craft, freighters or small vessels and are
subsequently reshipped from Pana~ia City. Increasingly, the
- preferred route is via Brazil. At first glance, to ship
- Colombian cocaine from Panama to the United States via
Brazil might seem senseless. However, the narco~ics
syndicates are opting for "circuitous" routes to confuse
- drug enforcement agencies and throw them off the track.
In ,:his highly lucrative trade, which has become ihe most
serious criminal problem in the United States, t?~e
Colombians are the cruelest and most ruthless murderers
in this hemisphere.
Panama City--It only took a long afternoon asking questions in certain places
to obtain several names and telephone numbers, but then it took 3 1/2 days of
~ patient flattery and ca~oling to arrange a meeting. This :Ls not surprising;
the matter at hand was an illegal business which, in the United States alone,
annually represents more money than the Gross Domestic Product of most
countries.
From the outset, we made no attempt whatever to deceive ~he professionals in
the field. We ~zever said we were new to the business and wanted, if possible,
to negotiate with them--a lie which they would have seen through immediately.
We said simply that Panama is known as an important crossroad for
_ international narcotica traffic and that there must be sameone, on the wrong
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side of the law, who was willing to discuss the matter.
That someone, as we had already predicted, was a Colombian. Some years ago
the l'anamanians ~aere deeply involved in durg traffic, hut today, although
Panama is considered the major exchange post for illegal drug traffic to the
L)nited States and other countries, it is the Colombians who are directing the
_ operations. This is primarily for two reasons. The first is that the
Colombians control the flourishing production fo cocaine, which has become the
world's preferred narcotic, and the Colombians are extremely ruthless when it
- comes to insuring their control over the wholesale and even the retail
distribution of the product.
The second reason is that Panama's former strong u~an Omar Torrijos instilled an
int~nse fear of drug traffic in his countrymen. This does not mean that
money from the drug trade is nc longer circulating among Panamanians. Generally,
however, the amounts ar~ small.
The Colombian had the egotistical air of someone who kn~ws he is an important
figure, ableit in a closed circle of outlaws. Curiously, however, he did not
dress at all ostentatiously; the only jewelry he wore was a gold watch with
a gold band. Our meeting, arranged through a local journalist, took place
in the dinuiess of one of the countless nightclubs on Avenida Espana in
Yanama City. These establishments charge exorbitant prices to the tourists
who venture out from their luxury hotels to frequent them.
"You can call me Sanchez," the Colombian said. "Roberto Sanchez. kiy wife, my
].overs, the Panamanian authorities and the U.S. drug enforcement agents know
my real name. But you can call me Sanchez.
"The problem for the police," he added. "is that Lhey know who I~m and what
1 do, but they have no evidence to prove it." This because, although
= Sanchez annually deals in billions of dollars in drug trade, he has never had
any physical cor~tact with the cocaine, heroin, marijuana or narcotics in pill
ferm th:~t pass through Panama.
"'i'I~~ people who deal in this material or, as in my case, ship it are smart and
ricl~," he said pioudly at one point. "The people who use it are dumb and, for
ti~e most part, poor. 1. have never personally used any of the drugs that come
through here because I am known and I do not want to be caught with drugs in
- my pussession. I only arrange contacts between couriers and make and revise
travel plans--things like that."
:~:ulcher. describes himself as a combinarion of dispatcher and, occasionally,
bill payc~r and collector for one of. the five or six Colombian syndicates that
- u:;~~ Panama as a redistribution point. "Most of the money changes hands in
(:ol.ombta, Miami and New York--some of it in Frankfurt and some other European
l'li:{ES~~~ he adds. "Even so, a few million passes through my hands every year
mid 1 enjoy the feel of it."
According to Sanchez, his syndicate generally uses commercial flights, but also
- uses small private planes, one or two freighters and small ships. The
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The syndicate's cocaine shipments through Panama last year was between $3.5
billion and $4.5 billion--t~e "street" value of the product.
"This year the fig~re will be much higher," he added. "In the first place,
the prices will be higher, and in the second place, with the disappearance of
Torrijos, we foresee a relaxation of the vigilance against us here in
Panama, which will enable us to use this area on a much larger scale than
before. "
Torrijos was killed in an air disaster at the end of last year. Some 10 years
ago, disturbed by reports in the world press about the involvement of
Panamanian gavernment officials and diplomats (who were said to include his
_ older brother Moises), Torri~os ordered a campaign against drug traffic,
especially against the participation of Panamanian citizens, and he
maintained his concern in the matter until his death.
Even so, only a small part of the drugs that pass through Panama is confiscated.
_ In 1981, $10 million worth of drugs was confiscated. As astronomical as that
fi.gure seems, it becomes almost insignificant when it is estimated that about
$20 billian in cocaine and other narcotics goes to coneumer countries via
Panama.
Billions at Stake
The DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration), the U.S. agency for the control ot
drug traffic, has a branch in Panama, with offices in the Embassy of the
- United States. A DEA ~gent said that no one has reliable statistics on the
volume of traffic through Panama. "To know the exact amount, it would be
necessary to detain every trafficker and check out his bag, but we have an
approximate idea, based on the quant9.ty of drugs actually seized and on the
estimated consumptioi~ of these products in the United States. According to
these calculations, between $15 billion and $20 billion in narcotics passed
through Panama last year, owing to ehe strategic location of the country."
The figure mentioned by the American agent is generally consistent with the
information supplied by Sanchez, since the Colombian said his syndicate wr..s
only one of five or six syndicates that use Panama in their operations.
_ According to DEA estimates (based on "street" prices), over $32 billion in
c~caine and $27 billion in marijuana was smuggled into the United States last
year, over al~ routes.
Panamanian authorities dispute the figures supplied by the DEA regarding the
drtig traffic through Panama. According to one of these sources, based on
~ street prices, the traffic was "more or less on the order of $1 billion;"
another source put the figure much higher: $12 billion. Like the DEA agent,
however, these sources admit they have no concrete evidence on which to base
their estf-~ates.
For the drug smugglers, Panama's value lies in the fact that the country is at
the center of the air traffic in the Western Hemisphere and is located close
to northern Colombia. In recent years, Colombia has become so notorious as
a cocaine producer that customs inspectors all over the world go on the
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alert when planes or ships arrive directly from that country.
Consequently, the syndicates ship their cocaine, marijuana and illegally
manufactured drugs, such as quaaludes by all the routes at their disposal,
preferring Panama as the point of reshipment. The cocaine is almost always
shipped by air, frequently on private planes that fly only short distances and
land on clandestine fields, but also aboard commercial flights and on small
- vessels that unload their cargo on the Caribbean coast. Whatever the means of
their arrival in the country, the cocaine and pills are almost always rerouted
through Panama City. The marijuana frequently goes through the region of
Colon.
"An increasingly popular route," the DEA agent said, is from Panama via Brazil.
To ship Colombian cocaine to the Unite3 States from Panama via Brazil does not
make much sense, at first glance, but when you are dealing in a product worth
billions of dollars, a few extra hours of flight time, a iittle added
expense, ceases to be important.
"There is almost as Iittle inclination to ship the drug directly from Panama
to Miami of New York as there is to ship it directly from Bogota or Medellin.
Those responsible for suppression of drug smuggling are already expecting this,
but, in the past, who would have expected cocaine to arrive in New York from
Rio de Janeiro? The U.S. customs inspectors certainly were not expecting it,
and many of them do not consider such a possibility even ~oday. Nor were the
~irazilians expecting cocaine from Panama, because there is not much demand for
it in Brazil."
Sanchez confirms this: "zt is no secret to the narcotics agents (otherwise I
wtiuld not be telling you, obviously) that we are using the most circuitous
and confusing routes we can think of to get the material out of Panama.
Cost is not an important factor. Last year we moved regular amounts of the
material through Brazil."
Creating a Profession
Dr.�~s are transported, for the most part, by "couriers" who fly on commercial
p l.:iries .
"Many of these couriers," Sanchez said, "are individuals who are prepared to
take the risk just one time, to earn what seems to them to be a`huge bundle."
f.iut there are a surprising number of people, at least in our organization,
- who make a career of it. They are not at all worried about the risk."
Sanchez prefers good-looking women to serve as one-time couriars. "When we
recruit a woman with good legs and a pretty face, there is every likelihood
ttiat she will succeed in getting a few kilos of the drug through customs
witi~.out any problem. The customs officers are just like any other men; they
are a little shy around a pretty woman and are not inclined to suspect her,
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Besides Brazil, Mexico has also become inc.reasingly popular as an inte~nediate
point in shipping cocaine from Panama to the United States. A half-dozen
_ airlines fly between Panama and Mexico, and the Mexicans, more hospitable to
tourists than any other Latin American people, almost always allow passengers
through customs without any problems. From Mexico City, the couriers may
choose among various airlines with connecting flights to several North American
cities besides New York and Miami, such as Los Angeles, San Antonio and Chicago.
Some of them rent cars at Mexico City's international airport and drive to
the American border. At some points--Ti~uana, Nuevo Laredo, Ciudad Juarez and
Matamoros--*_he U.S. customs inspectors have been on the alert for drug
smugglers for some time, but in many other locations it is almost as easy to
cross the border as it is to travel from one state to another in the United
States.
"It is a long trip from Mexico City to the border, but it is worth the trouble,"
said Sanchez, "because it pays off."
The DEA agenst are disappointed that they are not intercepting as much cocaine
in Panama as they think they should. "But if you think about it," said one
agent, "why should the Panamanians, Me:xicans and othe rs be concerned about
drugs passing through their countries destined for the United States? The
fact is that in their own countries, even in Colombia, they have few problems
with narcotics, so they feel it is up to the consumer, i.e., the United States,
to stop the drug traffic. They see little reas~n to do our work for us."
Sanchez agrees that there is little demand for drugs in Panama. "If we had to
live off the sale of cocaine and mari~uana to the Panamanians, we would starve
to death. There is a certain demand for cocaine here in Panama City--by high
society, on one hand, and poor people on the other--and a certain market for
marijuana. In Colon, more mari~uana is sold than cocaine, because the people
there are poorer. But is is so little that it is not worth discussing."
Panama City, with its bustling international airpurt, is the transfer point for
cocaine; Colon, an important port on the Atlantic side of the isthmus, is
used for marijuana.
Pure cocaine d~es not travel well un3er himid conditions; therefore, given the
_ gr~at value of the product, it is usually transported by air. A quantity of
cocaine with a retail value of $1 million in New York City can easily be
concealed between the shirts and socks in a man's hand luggage.
I'roduction of this incredible substance begins in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia.
It starts with coca, in the form of small, thick green leaves that grow in
- clusters. The leaves, which were once chewed by the Indians in those
countries as a mild stimulant, are gathe~ed, boi.led and sold to primary
processors for less than $20 per kg. Thp processors place the leaves in open
pits in the ground or in 200-liter barrals. They cover them with a mixture of
kerosene, sulfuric acid, potassium carbonate and water, and let them "cook" for
several days to extract the cocaine hydrochlorate. The resulting precipitate
is a thick pasty substance, ashy-white in color, with a kerosene ordor. It is
known as cocaine paste. The paste, worth $4,000 to $8,000 per kg, is sent to
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laboratories--most of which are located in Colombia but some of them are in
Pert~ and Amazonia--where it is refined and turned into what is custamarily
calleu "pure cocaine." At this point--the stage at which the material reaches
Panama--it is wort:~ $20,000 per kg, and it will be worth $50,000 when it
reaches its destination in the United States or, sometimes, in Europe.
There it is combined with various other material in a mixture containing about
10 percent pure cocaine, packaged in tiny envelopes and sold on the retail
market for $100 to $125 per gram, that is, over ~80,000 per kg. This is the
so-called "street value" of the drug.
~ Bribery Part of the Business
; "The idea," said Sanchez, "is to reduce the volume of the material as much as
- possible before shipping it. One of the beauties of the business is that you
start with a huge volume of coca leaves; these are reducPd to practically
_ nothing--the phase in which the material is shipped to the market--and then
y~u expand the volume again by adulterating. Marvelous!"
According to the Panamanian police, there are several small operators in the
country. They get the refined cocaine from the syndicates that use Panama as
a transfer point and prepare it for sale on the local retail market. There
are no laboratories in Panama for production of refined cocaine, however, much
less for cocaine paste, the initial phase of production.
I:ven if it were practical to set up iaboratories in Panama, the Colombian
syndicates would hardly have done so, for two reasons, according to Sanchez.
"The laboratories would certainly ha~~e been discovered and they would have
had to pay huge br.ibes to keep them in operation. And if the bribes didn't
work--which would probably have been the case in Torri~os' time--the punishment
here would have beer, swift and harsh." �
Nonetheless, Sanchez sa3d that he and his colleagues from other syndicates
bribe of.Eicials of Panama's air and sea ports, which costs them thousands of
dol.lars ~ year. "it's part of the business. You think we don't bribe North
Amc~,-ican ~:trport employees? If I didn't buy off certain people here, before
lnnt; we would not have any "pack mules" (couriers)."
In Panama the penaltie~s for drug smuggling could amount to several years in
~rison, and they are imposed af.tEr summary trials. As an indication of how
- Panamanian justice can be "swift ~nd harsh," there is the example of a
purse-snatching on a xecent Sunday afternoon. The theft occurred at 1430
I~o~.irs. The thief was arrested after a swift chase, booked at a police station,
eaken to a local court, tried and sentenced to a year in prison at 1630 hours
t:h:it same af.ternoon. �

~ "Omar s~1id to us before he died that we must put a stop to crime in this
r.ountry." a policeman said. Torrijos was so disturbed by the reports
involving Panama in dr~ig traffic that he declared he was even prepared to
- order the arrest of his own brother.
When Moises Torri~os was a Panamanian ambassador, in 1972, U.S. Government
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States. Other Panamanian diplomats were also accused. Omar Torri3os "begged"
them to present ev3dence that the ac.cusations against his brother were founded
in fact, "because, if he is gui.lty, I will send him to prison." No evidence
was ever forthcoming against Moises, but other prominent Panamanians were
arrested. One of them was the former chief of the intern3tional transit
department of Tocumen Airport in Panama City.
Since then, Moises Torri3os has been on the ~ringes of political life in
Panama. None of the Panamanian political parties is inclined to take him
very seriously and, at least in recent years, no prominent Panamanian appears~
to have been involved in drug smuggling.
"I could talk abc,ut some 'small fish,"` Sanchez said, "i.n both civilian and
military sectors, but it would be very risky for me."
The Ameri~an DEA office in Panama is one of the largest existing in foreign
countries, but its agents will not talk. .
"All our investigations are secret and, actually, everything we do is to
assist our Panamanian colleagues," said a DEA spokesman. "You can be sure
~ that there are very good reasons for the existerice of a DEA office in Panama."
One of the reasons is that known and suspected couriers and traffickers who
pass through Panama can be reported to DEA colleagues in the United States.
Cruelest Assassins
Paco Sepulveda and Marta Lidia Cardona are two Colombians who visit Panama from
time to time to keep the business wheels running smoothly.
It is known that Sepulveda ships cocaine from Colombia to New York via Panama
and Mexico. Cardona ships his merchandise mainly to Miami and other northern
points in the United States, using South American routes.
Sepulveda is living in Mexico. Cardona, who occupied a lwcurious residence
in Miami before he was obliged to flee the country last year, is now directing
nis operations from Colowbia. He was arrested "in flagrante" by the DEA in
the United States and, since his trial was coming up, he posted bond of
$200,000 to obtain his release and flerl the country. For him, this was a
pittance.
Before he moved to Mexico, Sepulveda had his command post in New York. He left
the United States because he had tried to take over another syndicate's
territory and the climate in New York was very sticky for him. Justice
officials the world over consider Colombiar~ drug traffickers to be the most
ruthless criminals in the hemisphere. In l~ew York and Miami, where various
syndicates and even independent traffickers are always trying to "cut each
other's throats," there are severa`1 killings every month.
Sepulveda left New York after he narrowly escaped being shot to death by a
gunman who killed one of his assistants. Since then, killers seeking to take
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- over the operations he directs from abroad have already murdered a half-dozen
members of Sepulveda's ring. Qne of them was a 32-year-old Colombian named
Jose Martinez, who carried six false passports. He, his wife and two daughters
were recently kille~d on a New York street. A shotgun and a O.y caliber
Beretta were tne murder weapons. The two adults and the 4-ye~.r-old daughter,
who were inside a car, were killed instantly. When the gunmen saw that the
other child, aged 16 months, was still aliv~, they pulled her from thQ car by
her feet and put six bullets in her bacic.
Police who inspected the Martinez apartment after the killing found $1 million
in cash, 70 kg of cocaine and several plastic bags containing gold jewelry.
"Nothing like that happens in Panama," said a police official. "We know
_ perfectly we11 that the drugs come through here, although we feel that the
volume is not as high as is thought. We do what we can to interrupt the flow,
biit we have limited resources. I can say, however, that if these murders
occurred in Panama we would probably punish some people first and ask questions
later."
"There is no reason for bloadshed in Panama," Sanchez said. "We ~ust work
here as dispatchers. The killings happen at the end of the line. It has
never occurred to me to rip off some courier on his way to the hotel. We
Colombians here live and let live."
The drug-re~.ated crimes in Panama seem to occur mainly in Colon and are
generally the result of squabbles between local operators over the sale of
ma r i j uana .
Crass is easily obtained in Colon. Some transoceanic freighters that dock at
~his large port are used~in marijuana traffic, but most of the marijuana, like
th~ smal.l amount of cocaine *_ransported by sea, is carried on smaller ships.
According to information from sailors in Colon, a method often used to take
dr~~gs out of. Colombia consists in loading them on "fishing" boats which
ren~levous in Panamanian waters, to the north, with high-speed American
i~~;;iiry yachts. Drug smuggling is so lucrative that when the yachts' owners
, ar-c~ i.n danger of being apprehended they do not hesitate to abandon their boats,
wl~i.ch are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Many of these yachts are
moored at Florida ports, confiscated by the Coast Guard.
_ It is extremely difficult to detect these boats entering and leaving
P~iiamanian waters and even more difficult to catch them, because of the limited
- number of patrol boats available. "It is only the airports that we can make
at~y real Fragress in combating drug traffic," said a Colon inspector.
- Tl~e PBI (Federal ~3ureau of Investigation) also has ageFits in the U.S. Embassy
in I'znama. It is probable that they will soon join with their colleagues in the
DEA znd the Panamania suthorities in an effort to cut off the passage of drugs
rhrough this country. U.S. Attorn~y General William French S:nith rec~ntly
called narcotics the "most serious criminal problem" in the United States.
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' IRAN
BRIEFS
QUCHAN DRUG SEIZURE--The anti-drug squad has announced that during the
past week they have seized 8 kg of heroin and 151.960 kg of opium from
a number of persons in Quchan, Kashmar and Rey. [GF?'.1804 Tehran
ETTELA'AT in Persian 22 Feb 82 p 2 GF]
TORBAT-E JAM OPIUI~i SEIZiTRE--The Torbat-e Jam anti-drug squad has seized
450 kg of opium from a number of persons. [Tehran ETTELA'AT in Persian
- 22 Feb 82 p 4 GF]
_ NEYSHASUR OPZUM SEIZURE--The Neyshabur Islamic Revolut3on Committee has
seized 10 kg of opium and arrested the members of a smuggling band.
[Tehran ETTELA'AT in Persian 22 Feb 82 p 4 GF]
TEHRAN DRUG SEIZURES--Members of ant�i-drug squad have se3zed 1.3 kg of
heroin in TeY~ran. The public relations official of this squad announced
its activities between 22 November and 19 February as follows: a) the
Khorasan gendarmerie has ,eized 204.850 kg of opium; b) the Gorgan anti-
drug squad has seized 2.45 kg of heroin; c) in Sistan va Baluchestan
Province the anti-drug squad has seized 79.5 kg of hashisln from a number
of persons; d) the East Azarbay~an gendarmerie has seized 148 kg of opium,
and 26,053 kg of heroin; e) the Yazd gendarmerie has seizec 1.5 kg of opium
and similarly, the Hamadan anti-drug squad has seized 3.750 kg of opium.
[ Tehran ET'TELA'AT in Persian 22 Feb 82 p 13 GF].
DRUGS SEIZED.IN NEHAVAND--The Nehavand Islamic Revolution Court has sentenced
two persons to death for possession of 22,6 kg of opium. The Esfahan
Islamic Revolution Court has sentenced one person to death for possession
and sale of 20.8 kg o.f opium ~uice and 106 kg of opium and for hidin~
another 32 kg of opium. [Tehran JOMHURI-YE ESLAMI in ~ersian 21 Feb 82 p 2 GF]
OPIUM SEIZED IN nARREH GAZ--The Darreh Gaz anti-drug squad has seized
5 kg of opium from one person. [Tehran JOMHURI-YE ESLAMI in Persian
22 Feb 82 p 4 GF]
_ OPIUM SEIZURE IN SARAKHS--The Sarakhs gendarmerie has seized 25 kg of opium
from two persons. [Tehran JOMHURI-YE ESLAMI in Persian 2y Feb 82 p 4 GF]
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HAMADAN HEROIN :'EIZURE--The Hamadan anti-dru~ squad has seized 26.5�1 kg
of heroin. [Tehran KEYHAN in Persian 28 Feb 82 p 15 GF]
SHIRAZ OPIUM TRAFFICKING--The Islamic revolution court of Shiraz sentenced
a woman and man to life imprisonment on charges of trafficking 25.5 kg of
opium. [Tehran Ki;YHAN in Persian 27 Feb 82 p 7 GF]
BOSTANABAD OPIUM SEIZU:E-~-Committee guards of Bostanaba:i seized 25 roll
opiinn weighing 0.500 grams from an individual. ~Tehran KEYHAN in Persian
27 Feb 82 p 7 GF]
OPIUM DISCOVERY IN SABZVAR--Islamic revolutionary guards in Sabzvar seized
22.200 kg of opium and 30 roll opium from two professional traffickers.
- [Tehran KEYHAN in Persian 27 Feb 8~ p 7 GF]
ESFAHAN DRUG DISCOVERY--The Esfahan police seized the following quantities
of drugs between 21 .January and 19 FPbruary: 1.743 kg heroin, 3.246 kg
opium, 0,97 gram burned opium, 0.505 grams opium ~uice, 22 grams of
(jouhar-e naghari) and 105 tablets or hallucinogin. [Tehran KEYHAN
in Persian 27 Feb 82 p 8 GF]
OPIUM SEIZED IN 'ALIGUDARZ--Brother members of resistance headquarters of
Deh Now vi].lage of 'Aligudarz seized 2 kg of opium ~rom several traffickers.
[Tehran KEYHAN in Persian 27 Feb 82 p 8 GF]
SHIRVAN OPIUM DISCOVERY--7'he Islamic revolutionary guards patrol of Faruj
discovered 3 kg of opium in an individual's possession. [Tehran
.JOrtHURI-YE ESLAMI in Persian 7 Mar 82 p 4 GF]
OpIUM SEIZED IN CHABUKSAR--Members of Chabuksar mobilization seized 1 k~
opium from an individual. [Tehran JOMHURI-YE ESLAMI in Persian 7 Mar 82
p 4 GF]
l~AR5 DI:UC SE~ZURE--The Sapidan Islamic Revolution Guards patrol has seized
l k~ o~~ivm from a Peykan car. The four passengers of the car were arrested
- rina handed over. to the authorities. [GF301835 Shiraz Domestic Service in
Persian 1500 GMT 29 Mar 82 GF]
r1ASSIVE DRUP SWOOP--A group of drug peddlers has been ~rrested in Larestan
and 25 kg of opium was seized from their possession. Fasa Islamic Revolution
c.;uards recovered 2.2 kg of opium from two persons who ~aere later handed to
the authorities. [GF301~i34 Shiraz Domestic Service in Persian 1500 GMT
_10 Mar 82 CFJ
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HAMEDAN HEROIN HAUL--The Hamedan anticlrug squad has seized 26.591 kg of
heroin from a welding workshop in Hamedan and arrested four persone in
this connection. [GF241800 Tehran ETTELA'AT in Persian 1 Mar 82 p 4]
MASHHAD OPIUM SEIZURE--The vigilE.nt gendarmerie of Gonabad District has
' recovere d 95.2 kg of opium from inside the tires of a pickup truck. Four
traffickers were arrested. [GF241800 Tehran ETTELA'AT in Persian 1 Mar 82
p 4]
SMUGGLERS ARRESTED--Members of the "Ahmad Mostajab" group of international
drug smugglere have been arrested near Kashan, a.nd 225 kg of opium were
seized from them. Some members of the group were killed in the encounter.
[GF241800 Tehran ETTELA'AT in Peraian 1 Mar 82 p 4]
uitGE DRUG HAUL--The gendarmerie officials of Sistan va Baluchestan Province
have seized 126 kg of opium and opium residue during the past 3 days. The
guilty persons have been handed over to the authorities. [GF271440 Tehran
ETTELA'AT in Persian 14 Mar 82 p 2]
GUN, HEROIN SEIZED--The officials of the antidrug squad of Quchan recovered
35 kg of opium, 5 kg heroin and a Colt revolver from a group of smugglers
in the hilly areas of Tayyebat. [GF?.71440 Tehran ETTELA'AT in Persian
- 14 Mar 82 p 2]
OPIi3M SEIZUItE--According to IRNA, the Guards Corps clashed witl-i some smug-
glers yesterday in Qal'eh-Kobra village in Torbat--e Jam and seized 97.5
kilos of opium. [Text] [LD23~242 Tehran Domestic Service in Persian
1630 GMT 22 Mar 82]
FARS DRUG HAUL--The Central Committee of Fars and Boraz~an has seized 9 kg
of opium. The guilty persons have been handed over to the Bushehr Islamic
Court. [GF281949 Shiraz Domestic Service in Persian 1500 GMT 28 Mar ~2J
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SOUTH ArRICA
BRIEFS
WARNING ON DRUGS--Cape Town--South Africa was experiencing a serious drug
problem which was getting worse, the head of the Narcotics Bureau, Colonel
Vasie Smit, said yesterday. There had been a swing away from dagga te more
dangerous drugs, like Welconel, Mandrax and Cocaine. It was impossible for
the police to fight the problem alone and there was an urgent need for the
community to adopt a morc~ positive and aggressive attitude.--Sapa ~Text~
~Johannesburg THE CITIZEN :Ln English 17 Mar 82 p 12]
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AUSTRIA
THREE NIGERIANS SENTENCED FOR SMUGGLING MARIHUANA
Vienna WIENER ZEITUNG in Gernian 23 Feb 82 p 6
[Text] Three dark-skinned defendants--two men and a woman whose varicolored
head-scarf made her seem exotic--who had been in deCention pending trial,
were brought bef ore a jury on Monday. They had tried to smuggle 84 kg of
marihuana from Lagos, Nigeria, to Vienna by air, and then on to London, on
14 November 1981. Although thQ shipment of drugs was concealed with moth
' balls in all four of their pieces of luggage, a dog used for detecting nar-
cotics discovered the drug. All three of them were called upon by Public
Pr.osecutor Dr Ernst Kloyber yesterday to defend themselves against charges
violating the narcotics law and, in view of the tremendous quantity
involved, endangering the public weal, and of attempted smuggling.
All three of the Nigerians, who were defended by Dr Peter Philipp and Dr
Achim Maurer, admitted that they were guilty to a certain extent. The
44-year-old merchant Sulaiman Ayoade may have been the one who took the lead.
He persuaded his friend Afolorunso Adebowale, who is also 44, to accompany
him on a smuggling trip to ~urope. Adebowale said yesterday that he had not
been aware of the gigantic amount involved until the bags f~lled full of
marihuana were checked in at the Lag~s airport. He paid additional charges
of the overweight bags. Ayoade asserted that he only transported the marihuana
to Europe as a favor for his friend and that he had had nothing to do with
buying it.
The third defendant, the 28-year-old Mulikat Fasaanski, Ayoade's wife, had kept
the keys to the bags used for drug smuggling in her handbag. Nevertheless,
her husband, Ayoade, claimed that his wife had not known anyt'~ing about the
drug smuggling and that she only wanted to buy clothes in London. That claim
was refuted by a teletype message from Interpol which was presented to the
court during the trial.
The conftscated narcotics represent a value of about 1 million schillings.
Adebowale was sentenced to 3 years in prison and Ayoade and Mrs. Fasaanski
were both sentenced to 3 and a half years.
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BELGIUM
_ NETHERLANDER HELD FOR SMUGGLING HASHISH, ARMS
Brussels DE STANDAARD in Dutch 18 Feb 82 p 9
[Article by D.M.: "Drug Merchant Now Also Suspected of Arms Smuggling"]
[Text] Deurne--The Netherlander Johannes Fasen (31) from
Breda, who was arrested together witti his girlfriend Anthonia
Lambregts (29) at the Deurne airport by the state police
when 240 kg very gure hashish was found in his private a9.r-
plane, at a market value of about 30 million [Belgian] francs,
is regarded to be an important drug smuggler. It had been
established that he regularly made similar trips between
Morocco and the Netherlands. It is said that the reason he
landed in Deurne was that there was trouble at the airfield
in Seppe (the Netherlands), his usual destination. The
- detained Netherlander now has also been found to be under
suspicion for arms smuggling.
The aircraft, an Air Commander TC14 with Dutch registration PH-REL, landed
Saturday evening at the Deurne airf~eld. The state police assigned to guard the
airfield subjected the airplane to a close inspection and askzd the pilot
Johannes Faser, who was accompanied by his girlfriend and compatriot Anthonia
Lanbregts, where they had come from and what their destination was. In answer
_ they received a series of coordinates which was not an adequate explanation.
The airplane was subjected to a sharp inspection with surprising success.
The police found eight packages packed in jute, each weighing 30 kg,
consisting of four bricks of very highly refined hashish in plastic bags in
each jute package. The ~rade value on the "market" for this quantity of
narcotic is about 30 million [Belgian] francs, since it is known thz*_ drug
users pay about 125 francs per gram.
According to rumor, the man promptly arrested was to have been paid a
commission of 10 million francs. The airplane, the drugs and an orange
Alfa Romeo Alfasud with Dutch license plates which was parked near the Deurne
airfield were impounded by the police. Jerrycans full of flight fuel were
also found in the airplane.
The machin.e was said to have already landed several times with similar cargo
at Deurne. On the basis of the logbook, flight plans and the like, it was
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established that Fasen, who provided a regular connection between Morocco and
Seppe, an airfield between Roosendaal and Breda in the Netherlands, followed
the coastline on his flights.
The detained pilot is a member of a flying club based at Seppe, and had
obviously intended to land there last weekend. Presumably he had a message
from the Netherlands that the coast was not clear there, and he landed in
Duerne, where, as a safety precaution, a car--the Alfa-Romeo--was ready to
= finish out the drug shipment over solid ground.
The Deurne state police brigade,directed by Deputy Chief Van De St~en,in close
cooperation with ttYe detective services of Customs and Communications, is
now pursuing an investigation into the business and travels of the Dutch
detainees. A trail is alsu said to be being followed which could lead to the
--Moroccan?--producers of the narcotics.
The drugs impounded will probably wind up in the ovens of the Court in Antwerp.
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] CYPRUS
BRIEFS
= NARCOTICS IN FAMAGUSTA--While social unrest atemming from the unjust distri-
bution of income in our country is mounting, the emuggling and marketing of
- narcotics has assumed enormous proportions as a result of the government's
failure to take the necessary preventive measures. As we have stated in
- our previous issues, those selling narcotics have even managed to infiltrate
our high schools. According to information we have obtained, 20 kilograms of
- ciarcotics were seized in nylon bags in the Karpas region of Famagusta on
26 March 1982. Meanwhile, another 5 kilograms of narcotics were found last
week in the same region. The authnrities are expected to make a atatement on
the quantiCy and nature of the narcotics seized. [Excerpt] [NC300900 Lefkosa
~ [Nicosia] SOZ in Turkish 29 Mar 82 p 1]
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DENMARK
INTERIOR MIDTISTER WOULD PROHIBIT GROWING OF HEMP PLANTS
Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish 19 Mar 82 p 3
[Text] Interior Minister Henning Rasmussen plans a frontal attack on the
Danish production of hashish.
This will take place by way of a regular prohibition of the cultivation
of hemp plants, which may be used for the prodizction of hashish.
The background is reports from the pol~ce districts around the country,
stating that the police are unable to prosecute hashish producers becanse the
growing of hemp plants is not prohibited,and hemp plants may, moreover, be
used as cattle fodder and ornamental plants. So far, the courts have
acquitted several persons whom the police suspected of producing hashish.
The police, therefore, complain that it is impossible to prove that the
y hemp plant is being grown with a view to hashish production.
Minister of Justice Ole Espersen over 1 year a~o requested all of the police
districts in the country to re~ister hemp growers everywhere in Denmark.
Apparently, the Interior Minister is not aware of this. At any rate, he
said yesterday to the daily AKTUELT that the Minister of Justice will now
activate the local police authorities throughout the countr;~ with a view
to re$istering the entire hemp cultivation. The Ministry of Justice confirms
to BERLINGSKE TIDENDE that such reg~i.stration took place lon~ ago.
_ It would be the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Ju~tice which
would have to get together to work out a proposal for le$islation to prohibit
tlie growing of hemp plants.
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DENMARK
DEATH-DEALING HEROIN SEIZED BY POLICE IN COPENHAGEN
Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish 18 Mar 82 p 3
CText~ The Trouble Spottere have saved a 24-year-old narcotics addict from
dying after having a highly dangerous heroin shock. Other drug addic~ts are
in danger of their lives, the Trouble Spot.ters state. Yesterday, the alarm
- was given when the Police Forensic Scienc~: Laboratory found a concentration
~ of 44 percent her.oin in a sample sent in i'or analysis by the Trouble Spotters.
It was a question of 1.2 grams of heroin .found by the police last Monday in
- three cannular tubes, so-ca]_1ed straws, on a 24-year-old male drug addict
_ ~n a flat in Saxo Street. The Tr4uble Spotters call the place a"fixing
joint," where several persons were present when the police ap~:eared. The
three cannular tubes were seized from the male drug addict, who explained
that he had bought them for 2,400 kroner from an unknown pusher in Isted
Street.
`I'he Troub"le Spotters have just introduced weekly control analyses, paid for
by the police. The heroin from Saxo Street was the first drug to be sent
in for s!:ch an analysis, Ove Nielsen, po:Lice superintendent states. He
i.tli..rodtice~~ this "service" for dru6 addic~ts and treatment centers after at
~Lea:-t 3~leaths in Atxgust af 1981 resulting from the taking of 56 percent
- )~el�oin. The normal concentration of heroin sold for injection is 5-10
p~~�-~cent, and the 44 percent of the heroin from Saxo Street may be death-
dezling.
Yesterday, the Trouble Spotters arrested the 2.~+-year-old drug addict, who
was subjected to a prolonged investigation in an attempt to find out who
~f~a;s his supplie.r. The police assume that the highly concentrated drug was
p~~~t on the market by mistake, perhaps by some i~norant dealer. The tra~edy
-i.~~ August was partly solved, and there were no indications of any intent to
1;i~ll in connection with the sale of the death-dealing heroin, which was
rn~~d? to complete].y accidental drug addicts.
L~st night, the police suspected a drug-related death at Frederiksberg and
~wo cases of suspended heart action among narcotics addicts at Vanlmse to
b~ due to the newly detected death-dealing heroin.
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DEP:MARK
OFFICIAL: SI%TEEN TONS OF METHADONE USED ANNUALLY BY ADDICTS
Copenhagen INFORMATION in Danish 23 Feb 82 p 1
[Text] The consumption of inethadone is at least 16 tons a year, distributed
on mixture and pills. The consumgtion also includes methadone for treatment
of non-dru~ abusers who suffer from chronic pain, and this group is on the
increase.
This appears from a reply from Dr. Michael von Magnus, chief physician of the
National Health Service, printed in the Cnost recent issue of UGESKRIFT FOR LlEGER.
The reply follows a provocative article in the same issue in which Karl Vogt-
Nielsen of the Anti-Drug Movement challenges the National Health Service. He
assumed that the consumption by the 800 drug abusers on methadone maintenance
- alone was 18 tons, corresponding to a dope effect of well ov.er 250 kilos of 15
percent heroin, or half the total Danish heroin consumption, according to
estimates of the police.
- Vogt-Nielsen refere to the report by the liaison committee in which it is
stated that only in extremely exceptional cases shall methadone be used for
prolonged treatment, and that methadone maintenance for more than 2 years should
be avoided. He states, at the same time4 that the number of people on methadone
maintenance over a prolonged period of time is, at the moment, larger than the
number of patients being treated without drugs, and that more than half of the
- drug abusers in Copenhagen have received methadone for mere than 2 years.
He also points out that there are departures from the purposes contained in the
circular of the National Health Service, according to which circular methadone
shall be taken under supervision, regular uroscopies shall be undertaken to
ensure that methadone does not end up in the illegal market, and that the
drug addict does not take other drugs simultaneously with methadone.
"Defeats Its Own 1'urpose"
_ Vogy-Nielsen thus maintains that physicians leave it to dru$ abusers themseives
to administer the methadone, that there are permanent places in Copenhagen
where the drug is being traded, and that the methadone may be purchased
practically everywhere, and at fixed prices. F~irthermore, he states that drug
abusers often cheat on their urine specimens by adding ascorbic acid, that not
a single urine specimen analysis has been undertaken in Copenhagen, and that the
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P4ixi~icipal Council of Copenhagen has voted down a proposal to undertake such
ana~ysee at regular intervals.
"It~ our� opinion, the administration of inethadone has completely defeated its own
purpose," he writes.
I~r. Michael von Magnus, chief physician, maintains that methadone is a"valuable
- supplement" in the treatment of certain drug abusers, that the number of drug
abu~sers on methadone maintenance for a short or a longer period of time has not
increased since 1.979, and that the number of drug addicts who have been on
methadone for more than 6 months is the same as in 1979�
As for the circular of the National Health Service, the chief physician states
that the most i.^.!p~rtant thing has been to stress the responsibility on the part
of' the general practitioner to ensure proper treatment. The rest is ~ question of
~ gizideline~--which, however, in the circular, are provided with a modest "should."
But none o~' these pdints may be conceived as absolutes. The National Health
Service has previously informed physicians that urine specimens may be omitted,
- as there have been problems having them performed at a reasonable cost.
Von Magnus states that the fact that methadone is not being used in Norway--nor
in the county of Ribe--as pointed out by Vo~t-Nielsen, is not comparable with the
~eneral Danish problems in the area. He states that the problems of insufficient
resources for treatment are not being solved either by "unilaterally criticizing
the use of inethadone in the treatment of drug abusers in cases where thi.s is the
only realistic possibility in the specific situation."
Ilnjizstified Criticism
~ The National Heal.th Service, moreover, finds it unjustified to criticize the
,r;eneral practitioner for usin~r methadone in the treatment of drug abusers, seein~
t}lat "the treatment i.nstitutions; to a large extent, have refused to use any
mett~adone at all in their treatment of patients, and seeing that, in the individ-
ual. ca~es, there have been no other relevant possibilities of treating tt~e
patients, and where pr.escribing methadone for use during a prolonged period of
time mighl; be relevant," the chief physician writes.
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DENMARK
DANISH, NO~tWEGIAN POLICEt OVER A TON OF HASHISH FROM NEEAL
Oslo ARBEIDERBLADET in Norwegian 3 Mar 82 p 9
[Article by Helge Aamotsbakke*~~
[Text] Norwegian and Danish narcotics police believe that an international
gang has smuggled 1.1 ton hashish into the tdordic countries since last summer.
Presumably, the tot~l amount never wi11 become known. Customs officers are
unable to check the enormous amount of freight sEnt by way of Kastrup Airport.
The hashish has been sent by air freight from Karachi, Pakistan. It originates
in Nepal and is of the finest quality on the market.
So far, Danish police have made three hashish seizures at Kastrup Airport
outside Copenhagen. The first seizure, which was in a crate addressed to
the B&W Shipyard, weighed 216 kg. Last January narcotics police seized another
B&W crate. This time 100 kg hashish was confiscated.
Last: weekend the police and customs officers made yet another seizure, again
weighing 216 kg.
- Norwegian narcotics poZice have made few comments on this case~. Chief of
narcotics police, inspector Arne Huuse, told DAGBLADET, however, that the
case has been given high priority.
"Apart from the fact that last Tuesday we arrested a 24 year old Norwegian
man in connection with this case, that he is charged with hashish smuggling,
and that the quantity smuggled to Norway is relatively small by the standards
of this case, I will not discuss the case further, due to the ongoing investi-
gation," Arne Huuse said.
Commissioner Bent Hansen of the narcotics police in Copenhagen told DAGBLADET:
"We made the arrest after a long and intense investigation with 10 men in the
field," commissioner Bent Hansen of the Danish narcotics police in Copenhagen
told DAGBLADET. "So far we have made three seizures, but our investigation
has revealed that at least six shipments have arrived."
"The invoices, which were falsified, indicate three other shipments."
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DENMARK
WELFARE ~IRDCTOR: STOP UNEMPLOYMENT, DISABILITY AID TO USERS
- Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish 16 Mar 82 p 3
[Text] " Dru$ abusers should neither have unemployment benefits nor sick
leave benefits. It will have to be a hell to be a drug addict so that it
becomes attractive to receive slow withdrawal treatment."
The above statement was made by Lars Lundgaard, county welfare director and
chairman of the government's youth committee, at the annual meeting yester-
day of the Crime Prevention Council. He warned against the so-called
"si.lver platter principle":
- "Kindliness and half-heartedness toward drug abusers often become a
= hindrance in the treatr~ent. I would wElcome consistent application of the
rules and regulations on the part of the welfare and labor market authori-
ties.
In this way, 75 percent of the drug abusers will within a reasonable time
get in touch with a treatment center. And they will carry through the
slow withdrawal treatment."
Lar; Lun~igaard presented his views during the debate on perspect9.ves in the
c~~mr~ing years' anti-drug efforts. The chief of the Copenhagen Narcotics
['~~iice, Bent Ejlerskov Petersen, criticized the politicians for lacking
the will to eradicate narcotics:
_ "What is the use for the police to be allocated additional resources, when,
for example, the customs authorities are unable to make an effort to put an
end to the smuggling of dru$s into the country? Those responsible do not
- plan any joint action, and the politicians have not laid down any superior
abjectives. Denmark is w~.thout any anti-drug policy. Each krone, each
million s~ent in the efforts of the police to fight narcotics crimes are
w~sted~ like the money thrown into the vessel of the Danaides.'~
7'he council yesterday presented a comprehensive information campaign fi-
nanced for 800,000 krox~er, ~ran~ed by the Society of Insurers.
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DENMARK
FOLKETING MAJORITY PREVENTS ACTION TO CLOSE CIiRISTIANIA
Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish 17 Mar 82 p 2
[Text] There is every indication that "the Free City of Christiania" will
remain in existence as an"alternative urban society'~ for an indefinite
period of time, Proposals for its liquidation and clearance cannot be
, carried through for political reasons. However, the debate in the Folke-
- ting yesterday confirmed wishes on the part of the government and the
Folketing for what they call a'~legalization" of the conditions, and this
will be the basis for the continued existence of Christiania.
A r~ajority in the Folketing take notice of Minister for the Environment
- Erik Holst's report on the Christiania area. In the said report, which
makes use of the draft by the consultin$ firm of Mmller & Grmnborg for the
future use of Christiania, the minister assumes that plans will be made of
the area, and that this will take place in a process concurrently with,
and integrated in, an att~mpt to change the society of Christiania. The
idea is thus that the general rules of the Danish society shall apply to
the area. The hashish market will be removed, it is stated. The licensing
and value-added-tax conditions cf the pubs must be put in order. Buildings
and installations must become legalized, and the health and environmental
regulations must be complied with. The dangerous �ramshackle buildings must
be demolished, and the houses worth preserving must be restorPd.
In the course of the very long debate yesterday in the Folketing, Agnete
Laustsen (Conservative Party) stated in response to the report by the
minister that the statement now being made that Christiania was to continue
but subject to the general laws of the society was reminiscent of statements
made earlier. The legalization of the area which was to be the basis had
not been fulfilled--on the con~rary. There was no reason whatever to be- '
lieve that it would now really happen, and that the government would take
action.
During the debate, Minister for the Environment Erik Holst made it quite
clear that the government cannot advocate clearing of Christiania, and his
views were supported by the Social Democratic Party, as well as by the
Socialist People's Party and the Radical Liberal Party. Ebba Strange
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(Socialist People's Party) found it valuable to operate with alternative
ways of life ar.d forms of society, and Tage Draebye (Radical Liberal Party)
_ stated that Christiania will have to be supported, but that certain demands
- will. also have to be made of Christiania.
The spokesman for the Progressive Party, Knud Lind, who said that the govern-
ment had, for a decade, been cherishing a vipor in its bosom, moved the
following resolution on behalf of five parties (the Conservative r:~rty, the
Liberal Party, the Pro$ressive Party, the Center Democrats and the Christian
People's Party): '~As the conditions in the Christiania area must still be
regarded as unacceptable, especially with regard to the social and crime-
producing conditions, the Folketing requests the government--in accordance
with the jud~ement of the Supreme Court passed on 2 February 1978--to take
- the necessary steps immediately for closing of Christi~nia by the end of
- 1g82_.'?
This resolution was defeated as the majority adopted the resolution taking
cogniZance of the report by the minister.
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- DENMAFtK
REPORTER VISITS CHRISTIANIA, FINDS HASHISH SOLD OPENLY
Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish 16 Mar 82 Sec II p 1
CArticle by Henrik Grunnet7
[Text] Hashish is being sold openly, even by 13-year-old girls,
in the free city which likes to call itself "the village of the
~ big city," but which has become a village with all of the weak-
nesses of the bi$ city.
The air is suddenly pierced by the shrill blasts of 20-30 boatswain's
. pipes. It is the internal alarm signal of Christiania, which means that
the police are on their way: In a matter of seconds, the entire Pusher
Street, as this part of Christiania's only actual street is called, is
cleared. Left are the unsuspecting buyers of hashish, who now become the
only people caught by the police.
It is 4 o'clock in the afternoon. It is a weekend~ and spring has come to
Christiania. Pusher Street, the name of which clearly implies what happens
on this street, has been marked by brisk activity since the early morning
hours. A crowd of schoolboys has gathered around a seller, evaluating his
"wares." They feel and smell at the hashish before deciding to buy it.
"Have you also got black aphan," asks one of the boys who has heard that
black aphan is the strongest kind of hashish on the market. The pusher
answers in the negative by shaking his head but refers to a colleague who,
at the moment, is in the process of selling a large quantity to a Swede,
"but you should rather buy from cne, for the black aphan is fu3~.~of plastic
and is bad to smoke," the pusher says. They do not hide anything. The
traffic in hashish is taking place quite openly, and they pay no attention
to the fact that it is actually prohibited in the Danish society.
The fact that the alarm signal has been sounded does not mean that the
traffic has been interrupted but only that the pushers now disappear from
Pusher Street, withdrawing to the pubs around the street where the traffic
continues as briskly as before. If the police enter one of the pubs, the
pushers disappear out of the back doors to continue the traffic in another
pub.
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Woodstock is one of the pubs at Christiania where the traffic in hashish
may run into several hundred thousand kroner a day.
13-Year-Old Pusher
The sweet smell of hashish mixes with the stench of beer and vomit. Dogs
of undefinable breeds dart in and out among the legs of the customers on
the filthy floor. But nobody seems to pay any attention ~o them or to the
surroundings for that matter. Most of the regular r,ustomers of the pub
- sit, a dull expression in their eyes, looking vacantly into the air. They
are waiting for the r.ext pipe of hashish. Only the pushers seem to be
interested in what is ~oing on around them. As soon as a new customer
enters ~che room, he/she is being showered with offers of all kinds oi
hash~sh.
~ Tn a corner of the pub, a 13-year-old girl is sitting. On her lap is her
5-year-old sister, who slurps a coke. On the table in front of the girl
is a big sheet of hashish. A piece is broken off and is carefully weighed
on a small spring balance before the girl hands it to the customer. Out
of her pocket slle pulls a big bundle of 100 kroner notes, and with an
indifference as if it were a ba~ of candy, she counts the notes and gives
- back on a 1,000 kroner note.
The current price for 1 gram of hashish is 50 kroner. Around the room
one notices several hundred grams of hashish changing hands. It is.
_ primarily Swedes and Norwe~ians who purchase such large quantities, and
these purchases take place with a view to resale in the home countries.
Tn mo~t places, only 2_~3 gr.ams are sold at a time, and the buyers are
youn~; people who have clubbed to~ether for a weekend of fun and escape
from reality. f~oth the police a?~d the politicians recognize the fact that
only h.ashish is beir.g so].d at Chr.istiania today. Takin$ the law into
1-h~i.r o~an hands and through s~L-ri.ct measures, the inhabitants of Christiania
- h~ave mar~a~ed to piat a stop to al1 traffic in hard dru~s in the free city.
H.~i�d dr~~i~; dealers who turn up at Christiania are being thrown bodily out
r~r~;~in. However., the problern has not moved far away. At the pubs immediate-
o~~i:si.de Ch~~i_sti~n~.1, t.he traffic in hard drugs is taking place nearly
openly as the traffic in hashish in the free city.
]~~verywhe.re within Christiania one sees more or less ramshackle houses, the
for.mer mil:itary barracks. The~e now hold the permanent residents of
C}lristiania who each of them have arran~ed their own flats or who live
tot;ether in collectives. It is not as previously possible for just any-
r~od,y to visit these flats. The doors are locked, and the pri~~ate owner-
::hip is strictl,y observed. But, at the same time, this has meant that
~r,:~n,y .fl.ats are in a condition fully corresponding to what one will find at
~d~,~rrebro and. 0st~rbro. All occupants repor+ed (800-1,000) pay 250 kroner
ii~ r.ent, w}iich ~oes toward Christiania's water, power and heat bills.
~i'he many Greenlanders at Christiania have to live in their own buildin$,
"th? Star Ship." A ghetto within the ghetto, one might feel, but the
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residents of Christiania are of th~ opinion that the Greenland culture,
in too rnany respecte, is incompatible witYi their own.
However, Christiania is more than old military barracks. On the ramparts
of Christianshavn, one may experience an environment which comes close to
real village idyl. Here are some of the most beautiful areas in Copen-
hagen, and, at this late afternoon hour, people of all ages are sitting
or lyir.g down, enjoying the last rays of sunshine of the day.
Restaurant Life
Outside a ramshackle houss is an enormous heap of old, rizsty bicycle parts
as well as a few complete bicy~les. Above the door is a boaxd explaining
the presence of the bioycles: "Have the cops taken your bicycle? Buy
completely honest bicycles here. We make them ourselves." Next to the
bic,ycle maker is a grocery store, and here the residents of Christiania
buy all of their daily needs right from curative apricot juice to
Christiania's own weekly newspaper. The goods are expensive, but one has
a cozy time, and the people rzll talk with one another.
In a corner of the free city is a combined pub and restaurant with the
imap;inative riame of "the Moonfi~her." Here, food is being served between
- 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. At a first glance, ~he environment is the same as in
the pu~s around Pusher Street, but on examining the place more closely,
one notices important differences. The floor and the tables are clean,
~nd the hup;e, home-made wrought-iron fire place in the center of the room
is actually somethin~ of an architectural master piece. On the plentifully
~ equipped bar are the papers of the day ~including BERLINGSKE TIDENDE).
T.he menu card, with which one is presented as soon as one has sat down, is
varied. Right from vsgetable soup at 15 kroner to sirloin steak at 50
kroner.
During moments when one succeeds in forget~ing that the kitchen has never
been inspected by the health control authorities, i;he sir~oin steak tastes
_ excellently and the Beaujolais wine at 50 kroner is splendid.
- No wonder that the food is cheap,for here they pay no taxes, value-added-
taxes or duties. After a quick calculation, one arrives at the conclusion
that if the pubs were to pay these taxes and duties, and still make ~he
same profits, the prices would have to be more than twice as high. It is
not only throu~h hashish traffic that easy money is made.
Christiania which once was a free city for hopeful young people with
alternative ideas of socie+y, has become a ghetto with enormous problems
of sanitation and restorat_�~n, with a just as big class division as the
society outside and where buses filled with tourists are nn equally daily
event to the residents of Christiania as to the animals in the Copenhagen
Zoo.
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Ai. the exit of Chris~;iania are around a dozen booths, selling everything,
- ri~;ht from handcarved hashish pipes to picture postcards of Christiania.
With or without ~he willingness of the residents, the free city of
Christi.ania has become a market for commercial interests. "A village with-
. in the big city," the residents of Christiania like to call the area, bu.t
it is a village with all of the weaknesses of the big city.
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- DENMARK
POI,ICE ASSERT CHRISTIANIA IS DENMARK'S HASHISH CENTER
Copenhagen BERLINGSKE TIDENDE in Danish 7 Mar 82 p 3
- CArticle by Anders Wiig]
[Text] The traffic in hashish at Christiania is a bu~iness involving
millions of kroner. The extent of the traffic may be known by the ~rincipals
controlling it and fetching the huge profits. Minister of Justice Ole
Espersen estimates that 3-4 kilos are traded on a daily basis. That gives
- an annual turn.over of 54-73 million kroner. Accordin~ to the "Architect's
Report," a group of residents of Christiania estimate that there is a daily
turnover of 20 kilos--at 50 kroner per gram, this becomes 365 million kro.ner
annually. The Trouble Spotters estimate the daily turnover at 10-15 kilos--
an annual turnover of between 182 and 273 million kroner.
"I do not know on what the minister bases his estimate. But regardless of
when we get out there, from the early morning to the late night hours, we
invariably find a brisk turnover of hashish. We base our estimate of 10-15
kilos on the seizures which we manage to make when undertaking our 15-20
miiiutes of spot checks 2-3 times a week, at a maximum. In order to get
hold of the hashish, we have to get into Christiania without being noticed.
`1'he residents of Christiania have got an efficient alarm system, involving
ho.^tswain's pipes, which may be heard everywh.ere as soon as we are observed.
That ~ives the pushers enough time to remove the hashish from Pusher Street
and about a dozen pubs. We, typically, seize 200-400 grams per spot check,
~ seized on several people. It would be unrealistic to assume that these
fi~ures would be an indication of the actual turnover," Ove Nielsen, police
si~perintendent of the Trouble Spotters, states with reference to the claim
from the chairman of the legal committee, Jimmy Stahr, to the effect that
only 10 percent of the traffic in hashish in Copenhagen is taking place at
Christiania. In the news broadcast on the radio last ni~ht, Jimmy Stahr
attacked Ole Nmr~aard, deputy commissioner of the Copenhagen Police for
dabblin~ in politics and using an unpleasant tone in maintaining that Jimmy
Stahr had misunderstood the situation with regard to the traffic in hashish
ai; Christiania.
Ove Nielsen, police superintendent, has no hesitation in referring to
Christiania as the only hashish market of Copenhagen. On the traffic
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~.akirig pl.zce in other areas, he say,~: "It is not at all on the same scale.
Tt may be a question of minor transt~ctions among friends, involving 10-20
~rarns of hashish traded in a pub--and often this hashish ori$inates in
Christiani.a. Some months ago, we had a bit of hashish traffic in the Saxo
F'ark at Vesterbro, but we put an end to that in 2 weeks.'~
2uestion: Why, then, do you not put a stop to the traffic at Christiania?
Answer: It is impossible to check the area effectively. It is a closed
,ociety with extremely efficient alarm systems. The working conditiors of
t:he police are hopeless--16 police officers were injured out there in 1981.
_ It 9_s the most difficult area for the police to work in of all of the
Copenha~en areas. ~ls thin~s are, we cannot stop the traffic throu~h normal
checl:s in the a.rea. Thai; k~ould require enormous resources. Each ttime i;hat
we check the area w~ need to send 25 officers out there, including two ~roups
he1c~ in readiness to have the rear covered. It is al.most impossible for the
po].ice to penetrate into a closed criminal cornmunity.
(~~~estion: Would you describe Christiania as a closed criminal community?
Ariswer. Definitely: For one thin~, there is the large traffic in hashish,
Cor the other, there is the traffic in stolen goods. Oize may ask oneself
1he question: Who makes a11 the money on the hashish traffic? I do not be-
:L~ev~ t:hat the hig rnoney is made by the small dealer and the semi-criminals
Foimd out there.
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I
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I
~ FT'~D L RF~'UBLIC OF Gi~1~h9l1PdY
-I
I
L,..',t1i),;[t Or' i~'RANICPURT UHUG RING GOES ON TRIAL
; i!~~mbur~; D:~t ~YII~IGLL in German 1 Mar 82 66,69
Tcx] Jo:.;eF~h "13ig Joe~~ Amiel, an Israeli, is on trial in Frank-
furt. Iic: is regaxded as the leader of the largest drug ring ever
brolcen up on the Main.
- Young female addicts who smuggled the
dope from Amsterdam across the bord.er
t ~ ~ ~ 4~i ~~~'.1..- ~i ~ ' `i ..'1.
. , , , ~ obeyed his every command. Investigators
`~'`;t~''~-;i?~':~ listened in on these orders over tlie te1~-
f,*,~:.ii
~~~''~ni~:'~~~ tt ~I
,~,;,;,i phone: a fcw grai.ns in somc paper,
. r' `;l;; a small packet in the mouth, ~~the grec:n
4:':, _ . ~~'Gi
� ones on the body under the panties"; or
a even six like a tampon, internally.
,
a.~~ . ~t
'1,' f 4 Others obeyed Joseph "Big Joe~~ Amie:l as
~t~' well. His brother Nissim, for instancc,
- sold the hcroin in and around the ~r~.nk-
�ur~t railroad station to suppor~; his own
habit~ because ~~he didn~t give him any-
thing,~~ as a prostitute told the policc:.
And if anyone evcr entertair.~;d any idea.:~
~ about doing business on his own, thougYit;,�
of terrible things kept him from i~t.
"I' d~ct a bu1 Let in the head, ~~as wha~l;
1)c~fendant llmicl Simon �Kuschi~~ Rimon feared~ so he utaycd
on with th e bo s s.
"Idever used a grfzm" .
The tavern o~mer from `i'el llviv had risen
to the position of ~~king of drugs~~ on the
~ Main (FFi.ANKFUR.Ti~ ~RUIdDSCHAU). As befitted
,i;~. ;~.t>~~ved thc Amcricans in thc ~ccoration.
E~~rt IS tons of cannabis, plcadecl liabit," A survcY by thc 33 R C pro-
:~uilt'v at thr Cenlral Criminal .fust a year or so :ago, ~`mcrica's �~~'ammr, "Mid~veck " in l')73
f'n~~rt lo h^in;! p,u�t oC an inter- 1,nnn;s ffonn; J~~unNni, i�cportc~l ~stimated that four million pcnnl~�
I hat " many ~Vashin~ton part.ics in Britain had tricd cannahis. 'I'hr
figurc, I guess, is aboul doub]c
that no~~~.
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UNITED KINGDOM
HOME OFFICE NOTES INCREASE IN NUMBER OF DRUG ADDICTS
London THE DAILY TELEGRAPH in English 24 Feb 82 p 2
[Article by David Fletcher]
[Text]
~ ~ 0 U N G pcoplc cau~lit ~~p ~ i~l tlie In a statemen.t, Rcleasc ~aid
that Facilitics for helping and
11I1GI11pI0yCIlClll' ,."~,100171 ~CC tl1T'IIill~; ~0 treatin�g ~eroin addicts~~ tvcrc
not only inadequate but hape�
1lCTOlri t0 e5cape 1~1C1I' depression, . a (~I'U�~; ]essly overwhelmed."
advice gCOU~ Shc(~ It predicted a massfve prob=
Mr Boh NiQhtin~ale, spol:es- lem over heroin' usc in Britain
yesterday: man, said: " it's a rlrspair amonfi unless priorities wcrc revised.
the voung which makes oblivion The warning was erhoed bY
1'hey pCCfer the " Care� much niore desirable, bhe Standing ' Conference an
frec Obliviott " the drub Iieroin makc9 .you far~et llrug Abuse, another group
- about things far a w�hilc, ~nd w~ieh woCk~t With drug~ablr.m
induces to the despair of c~ses.. ,
pc~plc wan~t that morc now bc-
the dole c~ueue. cause their life is~ no~ en.ioy It said time had al.most run
llnd a continuin~ incrcase ablc as it was l0,yc,.rs a~o." out.for many drirg addiots bc-
Uscrs, of fioth scxrs, rangcd ~~~se of lack of Gm~errrment
in thc~ alrcady " starllin~; " action. '
numbcr of hard�dru~ uscrs ~n agc from around~ 14 to 40, Mr David Turncr, Caordina-
is iucvit~ible, il~c Relcasc and spanned al! social classes. tor of thc Shending Confcrencc
group said. ~ Turned to theft said thcre had bcen a reduc
tion in services av~ila�ble to
'Thc ~varning follows thc P~~h� ~Addictiort led~ to vast expcnsc, pevplo �dependent on dru~s
lic�:~tion of }lome O(lice li~ures said~ Mr Nightingale, ancl some largel,y because of publie sr~nd-
which rrveal an incrcasc of youn~stcrs wcrc havin~ to rc= ing cuts.
about a third ~'rn t6e numbcc oF sort to theft pr prosti~ution to
notified add~icts in one ycar. nance the hahit.,'.Othcrs sold
- Thc Homc Officc said about drugs o. pay fon c~roin, cur-
3,600 wcrcreceiving dru~s from rentl.y about �SO' a~ramme.
cloctars to tmat thcir add~iot~ion Addicts usc~ ~t quarter or half
at the end of last ycar. At the a gramme a day.
- cnd of 19D0 thc figurc was 'l,8AG Thc Home ~ Officc fi~ures' rc
- mnp` tl~an a~t anv time over corded only those addicts who
thc prr.vinus 10 years. wcrc notified to the authoritics.
Tlut Rclcase said thc truc Thcrcforc, said Mr Nightin�
numbcr of hard drua addicts ~alc, t~he,y represented onl,y ~
was in~~rc iikc 30AOQ " at a con� Pro~rt~ion of , the rcal risc in
scrvat'rvc cstimatc." ~ ~a~s"aa~~ci
e d u~gsso oE the
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UNITED KINGDOM
DRUG SMUGGL~R MARKS .TAILED FOR THREE YEARS
London THE DAILY TELEGRAPH in English 17 Feb 82 p 3
[Article by Ian Henry]
[Text]
~UIVAWAY cli�ti~ si:~u~;lei' DI;?VNIS HOWAFD .Di'l~~'3 I~.iddera ,
n-1.~n~:s, ~-ho Uccame entangled up in a~ in, speakers
~~~eb of international intri~ue whilc worlcinb
for British intelli encc, was finall ailed for Yesc~~aay LORD .}~LTCHINSON,
~ y ~ Q C, for 114arks, told of D4arks'
tl~ree years at the Old 13~iley yesterday. iindercaver' intetligence ~~~ork
~nd wliy he disappeared and
~4arks, ~G, uie ~~Velsh villa;c boy ~vho became an failed. to a~ctcnd l~is original
OYford raduate and turned to dru smu ~lin as a trial.
b g5 R~r JONN RO::ERS, prosecut-
r.over for his M I G work, smiled and waved to his wife i~~g, said that in 1s75 Marks
.}vas one of a group of Cnglish-
JUdith as he left the court. men who smuggled cannabis
i.ast November Marks ~vas f?�om Europe to tl~c United
cleared of mastecmindinr 1'he 1'hames VaI1eY Policeman States.
a lot to sinu;gle 15 tons cif ~~ho carricd out thc inryuiry, The smugglers operated
" P Suut Philip Fairwcathcr, coni� throu~h a front company, Trans-
rannahis, worth �22 millian, n,itte~ suicidc after allegedly atlantic Sound, with a false
t~~ .i r~mote Scottish island. confessing to I~a~~in~ lealced his address in Brook Stret, Mayfair.
11~� ~r;~s jailcd for two .ycars rcport to a,iournahst. Thc compan,y "mana~ed" a
f~~r p;~�si~urt ut'I~nces. I:xtracts from the report non�existent group. Roc:k bands
l r;~rnl,~~. mor~~ t~~:~n ci;;ht ~PPeared in the New STA7'ES� GkC IO usc thcir crwn soimd
c~~,~~. ,ifl~�r bein~ nri~inallv Mnrv in ]979. Last Dcccnrbcr cryuipment, and anrpi{etiers arc
,~,i~~~t~~d in llulland I~~r dc~~~; Supt 1'airweather stabbecl him� ideal for concealing eannabis.
ti,1iu:~iin;, \tarks, nf C~~thcart sclf to death in thc garden of The cabinets ow.ned by Trans�
lio~~t. i~ulham, p~~~~dcd ~uiltv to his home in Kidlington, Oxford.� atlantic Sound were speciallY
cnn~piracy in 1973 to r.v~de He had aceepted responsibil� built in PuCne,y to conoeal 1001b
:1~m�~ic~~'s l;iws on drugs impor� ity for the New STATF.SMAN of cannabis. Thc "band" ob�
i,,i;un, lealc, and according to rolice tained custorns documents from
sources, was expecting to be Italv, Sw~itzerland, Austria, Hol-
j~~~~j~p�lp~t'~ chargecl under the O~icial sec� l;ind, Ireland, France, America
- rets Act.
At thc inqucst last montl~, it and Uritain, for tl~e import and
~r�ul nu char~es liad ~bccn ~
~,ntn� ~~.iIL" IndrlC.
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